Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-03 | Page 2 | School Boy Hunch Makes Lad World of Wireless

SCHOOL BOY HUNCH MAKES LAD WIZARD OF WIRELESS 1 1 My NEA Service A NEW Yi'KK July 3 A 24-yonr-1 1 old boy Is the Henry Ford of radio 5 Less than a year .iko Joseph D. R. 1 breed started the business with half , a desk for an office and no money. , But he had a K""d 1,1, ( Todav he is president of on of the larxest radio corporations In tho coun-. coun-. try, manufacturing a popular pried set. J How did he do It ? By working out a hunch that he got as a school boy. "While still a I. id," he says, "1 read about wireless, became interested and' . built u crude set. It Is still worklne,., Because it Is mechanically sound. "There was no broadcasting in those days Hut I was . onvlnced that radio would become popular for reception was so easy and the possibilities so great.' Bjpjsoi i, oi km; Freed kept up his experimenting. I He took a special course In radio engineering en-gineering at the College of the City of New York Before ho wa .ulm; through, the country wont Into tho! war. and young Freed was called t Unshlngton to be expert radio abb at the navy yard. Together with an assistant he helped help-ed organize the department that designed de-signed practically all the apparatus jused by the navy during the war. Commendation from his command-' In officers made it eav tr.r him f.-.' get a Job. But lie wasn't satisfied. I felt that radio was bound to be popularized " he goes on "not only among tho experts ana amateurs but by the general public." OPUIiAR RADIO So I set to work und designed an Instrument that could be sold at a low price and vet be fundamentally sound in Its construction. "I took that set and sold it to clothing und department stores when there were telegraphic code messages fl.vlng through the air '.'But with the development of broadcasting last fall came the popularization popu-larization that I expected." And with It came success. For i .'i septa i) R, Preed iioiriinc a lefju- lar slz- vacuum lube unci a sniuli, i hi (i device which he has developed. Jfreed'a company was kept working ; overtime trying to keep up with the , demand for its sets "Vfe had to devise special production produc-tion methods." he says. "It was like turning out Ford automobiles." The young radio wizard is now working on the construction of ji pop-i pop-i ulux priced combination vacuum tube I and crystal detector set, a loud speuk-;er speuk-;er without a horn, and a special type I of radio frequency amplifier that ivlll 'give radio reception a greater range.