Ashley Sterne, My Ideal Wireless Set
“ Lastly, I am anxiously seeking some method whereby a listener can hand up a bouquet or heave a brick at the artiste who has specially delighted or annoyed him. At present, we have no means of expressing our emotions at head-quarters, and I am strongly of opinion that some device for laying our tributes at the artiste's, feet or for smacking them across his face is urgently needed. ”
Ashley Sterne, My Ideal Wireless Set
“ My crystal is a beautiful thing, best 24-carat referendum, and when not in use for listening purposes I wear it as a tie-pin or a centre-stud, and try to imagine I'm Jolly Soel. My cat's whisker is so true to nature that the mice won't go near it, while my tuning-in coil is capable of such delicate adjustment that it will even enable me to pick up a Marcel permanent wave. ”
Ashley Sterne, My Ideal Wireless Set
“ My aerial is solid wire, throughout, and very popular with the robins, three of which, as I write, are examining with keen interest two pairs of socks and my other shirt, which a myopic menial has just hung up to dry thereon in mistake for the clothes-line. ”
