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Show oo RADIO EXPERIMENT MADE ON RAILROAD PHILADELPHIA. Pa.. Oct. 12. The first attempt to receive wireless messages Inside a moviuK a'l-steel car ( without the aid or aerial antennae was scheduled today on the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania railroad The Broadway Limited I leaving here for Chicago at 4:4cV p. m , was chosen for the. experiment. R. W. Brown of Philadelphia, wno has been working on devices whb h ho' believes overcome difflcutlles which hitherto have made It seem Impos-Bible Impos-Bible to receive radio communications! with apparatus entirely within a steel i enclosure, such as a modern railfoad car or steel framed office building. was to have charge of the tests. The railroad company has Indicated I interest In tho experiment from two previous tests. The first is the rapid-j ity of radio in furnishing information I and amusement to train passengers, and the other, more Important, is the possible future In train operation. |