Text Appearing Before Image: land an exceptionally entertaining pro-gram. We feel that the Voder not onlyimpressed visitors with the value ofresearch work being done in electricalcommunication by the Bell System,but also played an important part inbuilding good will through the friendlyentertaining program. By the end ofthe fair approximately 2,000,000 peo-ple had listened to this demonstration. On September 13, the NationalBroadcasting Company made a fif-teen-minute broadcast on a Coast-wide hookup of the Voder programfrom the Exhibit over Station KGO,San Francisco. In addition to theregular Voder program, the announcerdescribed the machine and inter-viewed a Voder operator, the chieftechnical man, and the manager ofthe Exhibit. On September 14, theGeneral Electric short-wave stationKGEI re-broadcast the program byelectrical transcription to the Ha-waiian Islands, the Orient, andAlaska. A few weeks later a visitorwho had just arrived from Chinastated that she had listened to thebroadcast in Shanghai and that the Text Appearing After Image: THE VODER SPEAKS — —and visitors crowd about to wonder at this scientific marvel which creates words at the touch of a girl's finger-tips 78 Bell Telephone Quarterly JANUARY
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[Fig.5] The Voder Speaks from: Roberts, Laurence N. (January 1940) II. At the Golden Gate Exposition. "Our Exhibits at Two Fairs". Bell Telephone QuarterlyXIX (1): 77.
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