Abstract
IT is useful occasionally to try to unravel the future. This is usually left to poets. The author of this little book, however, encouraged doubtless by the marvellous linking up of the whole world by radio-communication, has ventured to indicate some of the lines along which future developments will probably take place. Incidentally the reader learns many useful scientific facts. Radio television has almost been realised. Why not methods of preventing local thunderstorms and of improving the growth of wheat or of young animals? Radio waves may affect our health. Why should we not try to render this effect beneficial? The days of the outside aerial are limited. The study of radioactive materials may in one day produce the cold-emitter valve. It is difficult to believe that we are not on the eve of great scientific developments.
Wireless Possibilities.
Prof.
A. M.
Low
By. Pp. 77. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1924.) 2s. 6d. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 114, 413 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114413c0
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