Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Waskey could distinguish a thin piping note above the crackling static?a note that said another wireless operator back in Fairbanks had heard the preliminary signals of Waskey's small portable radio, was ready to receive and relay to the outer world news of the advance party of the aerial polar expedition financed by the Detroit Chamber of Commerce and commanded by Captain George H. Wilkins, Australian-born soldier of fortune...
...Observatory, Harvard University, Allegheny College and the U. S. Bureau of Standards. They had been on scrupulously selected, lofty sites for weeks in advance, erecting telescopes, fitting cameras, checking advance calculations and even-in the case of the U. S. Naval expedition -making ready balloons, dirigibles and airplanes for aerial observations. Soon after lunch on Jan. 14 their three important minutes came to these men. Cables began whisking the news back to civilization. The objectives and seeming successes of science had been: Data for determining the structure, shape, temperature, motion (if any) and "coronium" (unknown constituent element) of the flame...
...military schools; an air force in Alaska; an agreement with Canada for airways northward from the continental U.S.; an airplane capable of traveling 200 miles an hour at 30,000 feet altitude and with a cruising radius of 1,500 miles; a study of how to repel an aerial attack on cities such as New York. He said that he believed an enemy war ship lying 100 miles off Manhattan could pump aerial torpedoes into the city...
From Rochester, N. Y., locus of the Eastman Kodak Works, came news. An experiment had been made with aerial photography at night by flashlight. A Martin bomber 3000 feet up dropped 50 pounds of flashlight powder which was detonated in midair. Seven special cameras and a cinema machine clicked. There was a swift and powerful flash-it lasted only one-fiftieth of a second-then a tremendous explosion "rocked the buildings," "broke windows" (a few). The photographs were a "success." "Useful in war," said observers...
...about a new ray which he had discovered-a ray which begins in eternity. Born beyond space, in some dim interstellar vestibule behind the gates of the discoverable universe, out of a womb still swollen with gas, perhaps with litters of uncreated stars, the Millikan Ray stabs earthward, traversing aerial shambles strewn with the debris of mutating solar systems, planes where (according to schoolboy definition) parallel lines may meet, and voids in which time, unhinged, spins like a tiny weathervane in an everlasting whirlwind. What bred the ray? The condensation into matter of light and heat given off by distant...