PIONEER RADIO DEVELOPER DIES UNSUNG AS INVENTOR
W.D. Bruner, who died here Sunday at the age of 74, was the kind of pioneer of whom few are aware.
His interest in an astonishing new creation, the radio, may have given the invention enough of a push to help build it's acceptance.
In the early 1920's, according to Bruner's nephew, E.B. Center Jr., Dallas, Texas, Bruner built one of the first crystal radio sets in the city.
CENTER SAID as word of Bruner's gadget spread, people flocked to his house in increasing numbers to listen to the first crackling broadcasts over earphones.
About 1927, when Philco took a commercial interest in radio, Bruner and his partner, E.B. Center Sr., incorporated radios into their automobile battery service company.
The two operated the battery service, which was later renamed the Wichita Radio & Battery Co., from 1919 to 1937.
AFTER HE LEFT his own business Bruner, 601 S. Poplar, went to work for Radio Supply Co. as a credit agent. Center said he took the job because he got bored with retirement.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Hennessey, Oklahoma. Rosary will be said at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Cordry & Son Funeral Home there.
Broadway Mortuary has charge locally.
(Newspaper article dated Tuesday Eve. March 25)
W.D. Bruner, who died here Sunday at the age of 74, was the kind of pioneer of whom few are aware.
His interest in an astonishing new creation, the radio, may have given the invention enough of a push to help build it's acceptance.
In the early 1920's, according to Bruner's nephew, E.B. Center Jr., Dallas, Texas, Bruner built one of the first crystal radio sets in the city.
CENTER SAID as word of Bruner's gadget spread, people flocked to his house in increasing numbers to listen to the first crackling broadcasts over earphones.
About 1927, when Philco took a commercial interest in radio, Bruner and his partner, E.B. Center Sr., incorporated radios into their automobile battery service company.
The two operated the battery service, which was later renamed the Wichita Radio & Battery Co., from 1919 to 1937.
AFTER HE LEFT his own business Bruner, 601 S. Poplar, went to work for Radio Supply Co. as a credit agent. Center said he took the job because he got bored with retirement.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Hennessey, Oklahoma. Rosary will be said at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Cordry & Son Funeral Home there.
Broadway Mortuary has charge locally.
(Newspaper article dated Tuesday Eve. March 25)
PIONEER RADIO DEVELOPER DIES UNSUNG AS INVENTOR
W.D. Bruner, who died here Sunday at the age of 74, was the kind of pioneer of whom few are aware.
His interest in an astonishing new creation, the radio, may have given the invention enough of a push to help build it's acceptance.
In the early 1920's, according to Bruner's nephew, E.B. Center Jr., Dallas, Texas, Bruner built one of the first crystal radio sets in the city.
CENTER SAID as word of Bruner's gadget spread, people flocked to his house in increasing numbers to listen to the first crackling broadcasts over earphones.
About 1927, when Philco took a commercial interest in radio, Bruner and his partner, E.B. Center Sr., incorporated radios into their automobile battery service company.
The two operated the battery service, which was later renamed the Wichita Radio & Battery Co., from 1919 to 1937.
AFTER HE LEFT his own business Bruner, 601 S. Poplar, went to work for Radio Supply Co. as a credit agent. Center said he took the job because he got bored with retirement.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Hennessey, Oklahoma. Rosary will be said at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Cordry & Son Funeral Home there.
Broadway Mortuary has charge locally.
(Newspaper article dated Tuesday Eve. March 25)
W.D. Bruner, who died here Sunday at the age of 74, was the kind of pioneer of whom few are aware.
His interest in an astonishing new creation, the radio, may have given the invention enough of a push to help build it's acceptance.
In the early 1920's, according to Bruner's nephew, E.B. Center Jr., Dallas, Texas, Bruner built one of the first crystal radio sets in the city.
CENTER SAID as word of Bruner's gadget spread, people flocked to his house in increasing numbers to listen to the first crackling broadcasts over earphones.
About 1927, when Philco took a commercial interest in radio, Bruner and his partner, E.B. Center Sr., incorporated radios into their automobile battery service company.
The two operated the battery service, which was later renamed the Wichita Radio & Battery Co., from 1919 to 1937.
AFTER HE LEFT his own business Bruner, 601 S. Poplar, went to work for Radio Supply Co. as a credit agent. Center said he took the job because he got bored with retirement.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Hennessey, Oklahoma. Rosary will be said at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Cordry & Son Funeral Home there.
Broadway Mortuary has charge locally.
(Newspaper article dated Tuesday Eve. March 25)
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