[Milsurplus] Walkie-Talkie inventor of the name?? Perhaps it was.....

Tue, 19 Aug 2003 20:18:26 -0700

Actually, I think the first time *I* Saw 'walkie-Talkie' in use was an
Early copy of my dad's book set (He didn't write them, they were his
because he liked to read them) was in a 1938 short story by Franklin
W. Dixon (Forget what his non-'pen' name was) where two young
boys were playing with a pair of wireless radios, trying to triangulate
and direction find, and Frank told Joe: "Walk over there and I will talk
to you. Move your antenna around and when my signal is loudest, take
a compass reading." When discussing this with their father later in the
story, they exclaimed they had learned many things using their 'Walkie-
Talkies'. When these short stories later became the 'Hardy Boys' book
series,
no mention of the RDF episode was ever seen again, of course, it may
have sounded like treason to give potential enemies of America RDF
lessons in a child's Detective novel ;-).
73 de John W6HNC

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Subject: [Milsurplus] Walkie-Talkie inventor

> Has anyone read Tom Swift, Sr. adventures lately? I would be surprised if
a
> similar device was not imagined there. Or maybe the Radio Boys, or ...
>
> I clearly remember many of the toys we now take for granted were
envisioned by
> Sci Fi writers long before there was any reduction to practice. Think
Arthur C.
> Clarke and communication satellites.
>
> -John
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