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WE congratulate the Wireless World on the completion of its twenty-first birthday, which is commemorated in the issue of April 27. For its first two years, the journal was known as the Marconigraph, but as the number of amateur enthusiasts was rapidly increasing, it changed its title to the more comprehensive one of the Wireless World. So far back as 1914, we find from its pages that the late Mr. Campbell Swinton practically predicted the ultimate possibilities of wireless and indicated that at no distant future we would have broadcasting. The War gave a great impetus to the development of radio. After the War, the Wireless World took a leading part in the movement for granting amateur licenses and in encouraging the ‘Dutch concerts’ and the transmissions from Writtle—the forerunners of wireless telephony and broadcasting. It organised communication tests between amateurs in Great Britain and America with the object of finding out whether it would be possible to bridge the Atlantic on short waves. The success of these tests led to intensive research and the discovery that these waves were ideal for distant communication. It also played a foremost part in connexion with Empire broadcasting, and helped to overcome the bitter opposition to the scheme which lasted for several years. The progress made by radio communication during the last twenty-one years is marvellous. There seems no reason to doubt that equally rapid progress will be made for many years to come. Methods of communication which twenty-one years ago stretched our imagination to the utmost are now commonplace practice. We congratulate Mr. H. S. Pocock, the editor, on the excellent work he has done.
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Twenty-one Years of Radio Communication. Nature 129, 716–717 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129716d0
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