Davy Burnaby

“ I replied, "those are the necessary trials of being the wife of an experimenter."
"Perhaps." she smiled back at me. "Science is a wonderful thing; but I think it is better as a slave than a master. My husband, you know, thought of taking it up as a profession when we were both much younger—when we were engaged. ”

“ I told you when one was somebody the Post Office recognized one and gave one a licence to experiment, and one did a lot of really useful work. Why, in 1922 I remember I got through to America on a 20 watt set! Yes, sir! It may seem laughable to you, but I did, and got a sneaking little paragraph in one of the papers. Pah! makes you sick! Then this B.B.C, comes along and stops all my work, and hey presto! before you know where you are, there's one type of licence only for everybody—crystal scratcher, present buyer, listener, or experimentor. ”

“ The only part of Radio that's any good is listening to distant stuff, finding out new things; experimenting, my boy, that's what it's for. All these programmes! Who wants to see a Pageant of Empire at Ontario? ”