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Karen Temple, a starlet, and ice skater, fell ill and after a lengthy hospital stay was told she may never be able to stand. She tells Graham Macnamee about her 2 and a half year climb to become a top recording star. Behind the radio show, Double or Nothing, Walter Compton tells about the Seeing Eye Institute, a pioneering agency for providing service dogs for the blind.
Lee DeForrest has his story dramatized, and how his work on wireless telegraphy equipment turned into milestone work, to transmit voices over the air. His partner, Frank Butler, kept moving his receivers back from mere feet, to several miles. Despite setbacks, and being cheated out of patents, the two partners never gave up. Frank is in the studio to tell Graham what radio means to him.
What startling changes might be in store in the advancements of radio technology in the 21st century? DeForrrest and Butler can only hope they are still around to see the changes from 1906 until then.
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