Madras through ages
The Government Museum at Egmore is holding a special exhibition as part of the Madras Week celebrations. Photos, drawings, tools, models and machines - all these are exhibited at the Centenary Hall of the museum to tell the story of `Madras through Ages.`
A highlight of the exhibition is a radio transmitter which was one of the first transmitters to be used in India. The Madras Presidency Radio Club used the transmitter from 1924 till 1927. The club stopped functioning in that year because of financial crunch.
Later it was handed over to the Corporation of Madras which used it till the Madras station of the All India Radio was set up on June 16,1930.
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The people of Madras were not the only beneficiaries of the experimental radio station, but its reach was as far as Chittoor, Vijayanagaram and even Sri Lanka.
Text: Salil Jose
Image: A radio transmitter used by the Madras Presidency Radio Club.
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