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NS call him ‘Poor Richard’ be
|.§ NUad| cause he didn’t know what
BO~Rs| to do with it.”
{‘h Thus runs the composi-
L& <) tion of an eighth-grade stu
dent, expressing in eighteen
words an economic aphorisne about
which beetle-browed professors have
written forbidding volumes.
Franklin did cage the lightning; but it took
men like Edison, Steinmetz and Atwater Kent
to convert it into light and power and music.
Franklin’s memory enjoys the perspective of
time. But the kaleidoscope of current history
revolves so rapidly as to obscure, temporarily
at least, the great accomplishments of modern
geniuses. !
Franklin was skilled as a press agent. He
even published a magazine, outstanding in its
period, that the world might know of Franklin
and his ideas. 6
Present-day disciples of Franklin do little to
raise themselves out of personal obscurity. Clois
tered within walls of intensive effort, they ap
parently prefer to exist as forces rather than
as individuals. bt
Charles P, Steinmetz, wizard of the electric
arc, was accustomed to bury himself for long
periods in his laboratories, deaf to all calls
save that of his work.
Thomas A. Edison grinds away ceaselessly at
his tasks, aloof from the world except for occa
sional sallies to project a bit of time-silvered
homely philosophy. ‘ :
A. Atwater Kent, genius in the field of radio,
s another of these prodigious workers:, To his
associates in the great plant at Philadelphia,
where Atwater Kent radios are produced, he is
a living, breathing person—a dynamo of crea
tion. But to the rest of the country he is ap
parently content to be known only by his works,
" In the field of radio development, however, the
newest and most amazing field of electrical prog
ress, Kent has gone even beyond Steinmetz and
Edison in carrying through the application of
his inventions and discoveries and making them
a definite force in the homes and lives of the
people. To a greater extent than perhaps any
other inventor in the fleld of electricity, he has
followed the results of his research and experi
ments outside the laboratory walls, has super
vised the manufacturing processes that have
made possible at oncé accurate and precise pro
duction on a mass scale and then has personally
directed the merchandising setup that has made
his produet the recognized standard in radio
equipment. But all this has been done behind
walls of personal anonymity. The result is
that, while Atwater Kent products are known
the world over, Kent himself, the man, is a vir
tual stranger—almost a fiction—to the public at
large.
A slender, keen-faced man he s, of medium
height, now in his early fifties. Thinning sandy
brown hair, with a glint of red in it. Eyes that
sparkle and dance as he busles himself with
coils and meters and gadgets in the laboratory.
Lips that curve pleasantly in a natural half
smile. Direct in action, he does not experiment
blindly, but knows exactly what he is trying to
find out, and why., And usually he finds it
Soft spoken, but short spoken, he is a man of
more ideas than words, His stenographer has a
sinecure, since he seldom writes letters. Often,
his ecorrespondence will run less than half &
dozen letters a week,
+ But his department heads have no such snap.
They must get the full scope of his orders, in &
few words, and translate them into accomplish
ment. Thelr reports must be oral, not written,
and the last word In brevity, He doesn't want
explanations or elaborations. Either a thing Is
done or it is not done. Report the facts., If a
thing 1s done—good! It not—why! When will
it be done?
This directness and simplicity, which enables
Atwater Kent himself to be the directing nerve
center of the world's greatest radio industry—
from laboratory to sales room--is reflected in
his product. Efficiency, simplicity, compactness.
Those are three controlling factors by which
overy model s measured before it s placed in
production. Efficiency first. Then the maximum
simplicity possihle without impaliring efficiency,
After this, the compact coordination of parts to
make pcssible the least waste of space or mate
rials. Only by such methods, he holds, can the
interest of the buyer be served, which interest is
to get the most radio service, in the neatest pack
age for the least money. :
From the standpoint of practical accomplish
ment, Atwater Kent differs from Benjamin
Franklin in this: Franklin discovered electricity,
but, as the school boy said, “he didn’t know what
to do with it.”
Atwater Kent didn't discover radio, but he has
known what to do with it. As a result, he is
known today not only as a radio inventor and
designer of first rank, and as the man who has
produced more radio receiving sets than any
other manufacturer, but also as a leader in the
presentation of radio programs of the highest
class and & man who is building radio artists
for the future as well as advancing radio art for
the present. )
This many-sided character of Atwater Kent
is perhaps due to his varied training as a young
man. After attending Worcester Polytechnic In
stitute, he worked for a while in a factory near
Lebanon, New Hampshire, making electric mo
tors and watch tools. Here he learned lessons of
accuracy and precision in factory production that
have been invaluable in his radio work. A year
“on the road” as salesman for an electrical con
cern gave him an understanding of the buyer’'s
viewpoint—of the necessity of not merely making
a product that will sell but one that will work.
In 1902 young Kent struck out for himself.
First he designed and manufactured electrical
novelties. Then intercommunicating house tele
phones. An early model automdbile, which grew
bakky every time the vibrator on the ignition
stuck, turned his attention to need for more de
pendable automobile ignition. He solved it, and
his {"l‘rixger Ignition” became standard equip
ment on the better makes of cars.
Meanwhile, from two small rooms on the sec
ond floor of an old building on a side street in
Philadelphia, the Atwater Kent Manufacturing
Company -had expanded into one of Philadel
phia’s big industries. Then, after the war, dur
ing which time the government had utilized his
plant and equipment in making delicate shell
fuses, came radio,
Today, Kent’s two plants devoted to radio cover
more than seventeen acres. This year alone he
will produce more than ..e million radio receiv
ers, production during the peak of the season
running 8,000 sets a day--or one every three sec
onds for an eight-hour day.
During this perlod radio has progressed from
the old headphone sets of limited radius, with
wet batterles and dry cells, a tangle of wires,
numberless switches and dials, to the simple,
compact, self-contained house current set of to
day, with a single full vision dial and a volume
control, connecting directly to a light socket for
power. In all this development, Kent has held
the leadership in radio. But, buried in the back
ground himself, the individuality, the personal
ity, of Atwater Kent is little known. While the
name “Atwater Kent” has become a household
word, to the public at large it doesn't mean a
man. It means radlo,
That Kent's part in radlo evolution will be a
permanent one, shaping not merely the present
but the future, is insured by the fact that he has
been a leader in its cultural as well as {ts mates
rial development, As the first sponsor of a con
tinuing serles of musical concerts by leading
artists, he led the way in giving the American
people generally an appreciation of the best In
musie. Through the National Radio Audition
he has opened tho door of opportunity for young
singers to gain recognition and training to be
come the artists of the future, i
It i 3 to the ploneering of men like Franklin,
Edison and Steinmetz, and the translation of
thelr theories and discoveries into practical
working appliances by men like Kent, that
America owes not merely its Industrial leader
ship but its leadership in those labor saving
devices and household convenlences that make
the American home a model of efficlency and
comfort., It is primarily due to their wizardry
that our homes are today not only lighted,
warmed, cleaned and refrigerated by electricity
but provided with the best and most varied
entertainment any people has ever known.
Through radio and unit power plants, these
advantages are not confined to homes In towns
and cities. They are enjoyed by farm families
as well as clity dwellers, by the moderately
well-to-do as well as by the rich and prosperons.
CHARLTON COUNTY HERALD
Electricity sweeps our carpets and polishes
our floors. It washes our dishes and our clothes.
Its incandescence turns physical darkness into
day and, by radio, it banishes the mental dark
ness that follows prolonged loneliness and
monotony. It brings to our homes ease and the
means to enjoy it. It gives us the debates of
statesmen and the arguments of politicians; the
lilt of dance tunes and the “high C’s” of grand
opera prima donnas. It brings us the latest news
bulletins on important world events. It has in
reality, turned darkness and drudgery into lght
and play.
Benjamin Franklin, as wise and foreseeing as
he was, could not imagine even a small part of
the magic that his discovery was to bring to the
world when, in June 1752, he flew a kite up into
a storm cloud and, by means of a string and a
‘key, drew down eharges of electricity.
This famous experiment, proving lightning to
be an electrical phenomenon, was one of the
great steps in establishing the early theories of
electrical energy. The first invention to grow
from this experiment was the lightning rod, de
signed to conduct charges of electricity from
housetops to the ground without damage. This
was long known as “Franklin’s rod,” and won
for its inventor international recognition. Bal
zac, in writing of Franklin, described him as the
“man who invented the lightning rod and the
republic.” And in 1753 the Copley medal of
the Royal soclety was voted to Franklin because
of his valuable research into electrical phe
nomena.
Another invention by Franklin, paving the
way for the work of Edison on storage batteries
and of Steinmetz on the electric are, was his
development of the Leyden jar by introducing
the use of lead for the inner armatures.
Great as Franklin was In his other lines of
endeavor—as statesman, diplomat, :’:uhor,‘pub
lisher—it 1s by his experiment with kite and key
that he is known to most people. And It is
through that experiment that the Twentieth
century is benefiting most by his labors.
Steinmetz, in spite of physical weakness and
deformity, won a place of leadership in the
scientific world through his development of the
mathematics of electricity. Through his work
we are able to tame and measure electric power
with mathematical exactness. His early work
along this line was in establishing his theory
for the calculation of the alternating current,
and his later work, as consulting engineer for
the General Electric Company, gave the elece
trical world a new understanding of electrical
discharges, waves and impulses,
A soclalist, working for the love of his work
and the good of his fellow man, Steinmetz would
accept no salary for his employment. All he
wanted was his llving—a drawing account from
which he could provide for his own simple needs
and which would give him freedom to buy the
supplies and equipment he required for his ex
periments, With no desire for riches or material
gain, he was mentally free to submerge himselt
in his studies. He died in October, 1923, a poor
man. But his legacy to sclence has been beyond
computation,
Edison, as everyone knows, gave us the Incan.
descent light, the phonograph and the large-unit
storage battery, For 50 years his name has been
synonymous, in America, with electricity and its
uses, ’
At 16, he was a telegraph operator. Before
he was 21 he had developed the “automatic
repeater,” by which a message could be trans.
ferred from one wire to another, An Invention
for duplex telegraphy, which he sold for $40,000,
gave him & fund with which to retire from the
key, establish a laboratory of his own and devote
himself to Inventive research. The carbon tele
phone transmittor was his next Invention, Then
followed the long lne of Inventiuns and refine
ments of inventions with which ¥dison has held
the leadership in his fleld,
To a greater oxtent than either Franklin or
Steinmetz, Edison followed his discoveries and
inventions through to thelr practical develop
ment and thelr establishment In Ame/jgan
homes. DBut even he has not earried out this prac
tice to the extent followed by Kent. Perhaps this
s but another step in our selentific and indus.
trial evolution, just as radlo itself is a step
ahead of the OMMLII(M and the phonograph,
Franklin, Steinmetz, Bdison and Kent—those
four lives span the whole period of electrical
development, They, above all others, stand out in
the popular mind as the “Wizards of Klectricity.”
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Blind Will Honor Friends.
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sculptor, has been commissioned to
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