Science: Radio Writer

Two men in Detroit last week were busy running back and forth between two rooms of the Wardell Hotel. They were demonstrating for the first time a new radio typewriter, called a Watsongraph, to representatives from the U. S. Government, the Michigan State Police, the Press. One man was the hotel owner, white-haired Fred Wardell, president of Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co. He had furnished the money to exploit the new invention. The other man. who inspected his guests owlishly through horn-rimmed glasses, was the inventor, Glenn W. Watson, onetime salesman. Mr. Watson, new...

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