[NJARC] from Phono Digest - Edison - Radio complicated machine - dealers losing money on it!

[Aaron Hunter]

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Today's Topics:

   1. 1926 Time Article - Edison (AGW1886 at aol.com)
   2. Re: Bloomfield NJ Phono Parts (Clint Spaar)
   3. Re: Bloomfield NJ Phono Parts (Jim Nichol)
   4. Re: Bloomfield NJ Phono Parts (Ron L)


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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:39:40 EDT
From: AGW1886 at aol.com
Subject: [Phono-L] 1926 Time Article - Edison
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Radio v. Phonograph

Monday, Oct. 04, 1926 
News got about last week that Thomas Alva Edison had invented a phonograph 
record that will play 40 minutes. In West Orange, N. J., Mr. Edison verified the 
report. The record, which has 450 music grooves to the inch, will be placed 
on the market in a month.
  And how, asked a reporter, would this effect the interest in radio? Mr. 
Edison (he is 79 now) twisted his soft grey face into a smile: "There isn't ten 
percent of the interest in radio that there was last year," he said. "It's a 
highly complicated machine in the hands of people who know nothing about it. "No 
dealers have made any money out of. It isn't a commercial machine because it 
is too complicated. Reports from 4,000 Edison dealers who have handled radios 
show that they are rapidly abandoning it. ... "It's awful?I don't see how they 
can listen to it." 
  Roused, Vice President Reichman of the Broadcast Listeners Association, 
Chicago, land-telegraphed Mr. Edison: "I positively cannot believe that a man of 
your intelligence could be so badly misinformed as to publicly condemn a 
tremendous, growing and healthy American industry."
   Meanwhile, it was discovered that Mr. Edison had eagerly awaited the 
round-by-round radio account of the Dempsey-Tunney fight. Deaf, he had the reports 
repeated to him by Mrs. Edison. He explained that radio is all right for prize 
fights, President's speeches, etc., but not for music.

Sincerely.
Rick A. Jorgensen

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