We like to look forward and to anticipate what you are going to require next - but we like to turn back the pages to the days when we knew many "hams" by their first names and all of them by their call letters. with Schnell in the South Seas with the Pacific Fleet - the trans -Atlantic transmission of photographs -these and hundreds of other adventures are interlocked with the history of radio and of Burgess products, and with the part both performed in the march of the world's progress. We might enumerate just a few Adventures of Burgess Batteries - Paul Godley used them in Scotland on the First Amateur Transatlantic Test - McMillan's never -to -be forgotten dash above the Arctic Circle, from where Don Mix kept in communication with the A. We might reproduce here the first advertisement in the world of a battery designed exclusively for radio service - the first flat "B" Battery - the first verticle battery -the first dry Radio "A" Battery. If this `advertisement' were to contain a chronicle of Burgess achievements or triumphs performed with the aid of Burgess Batteries, it would require far more space than this page to record them. Known favorably for their high capacity, remarkably low resistance, quick recuperation, length of service and absolute dependability, and with the network of licensed amateurs as the basis of distribution and sales, Burgess Batteries became the standard of the radio world -a standard which, though later followed by other manufacturers, has yet to be equalled. All unknowingly that service, invited and given willingly to those earnest amateurs and which multiplied with the increasing interest in radio to proportions impossible to correctly care for as a strictly laboratory service, outgrew its swaddling clothes and blossomed forth into the construction, advertising, service and sale of Burgess Radio Batteries. They will remember, too, a laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin, from which they secured not only specially designed batteries but also a constant supply of authoritative research data. The old- timers will remember the power units of those early days when dependable batteries for radio service were yet to be marketed. Looking back a few years - prior to a small handful of men scattered over the length and breadth of the land and linked together only by their common interest in wireless, were quietly and steadily laying the foundation for what is unquestionably the greatest single industry and means of entertainment in the world's history.and these men were known as "hams." What an immeasurable debt of recognition and appreciation is owed these pioneers of radio! With equipment and accessories of the crudest kind, many of them of the "home- made" variety, one by one apparently stupendous handicaps were overcome and almost without exception the receiving and transmitting equipment of today had its beginning in the attic or barn wireless -room of a "ham" five or more years ago. And it is a penalty of the success of any organization or individual that the old -time intimate contact, the rubbing of shoulders over mutual problems and the sharing of disappointment and exultation is a privilege not forever to be enjoyed. 2 A word of appreciation to the amateur 00 often, in the endless drive and universal desire for that hide - and -go -seek dollar, thoughts of old friends and old alliances are lost in the hum and crash of the machinery of business.
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