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...Olds later approached Mosteller and invited to teach him how.“So we went to his office, and he showed me a generating function. It was the most marvelous thing I had ever seen in mathematics,” Mosteller told Donald J. Albers and Gerald L. Alexanderson, the authors of the 1990 book “More Mathematical People.”It wasn’t long until Mosteller would captivate the minds of his own students.“My most memorable meeting with Professor Mosteller was my very first meeting with...

Author: By Marie C. Kodama, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Statistics Dep’t Founder Dead at 89 | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

...information, hiding behind police sergeants' desks and answering their phones. Though he reported some 700 murders, McHugh's greatest coup came in 1952 when he filed a series of interviews with an escaped swindler before persuading him to surrender to FBI officials in Milwaukee. ∙ Died. Ernst Alexanderson, 97, prolific inventor of over 320 electrical devices; in Schenectady, N.Y. Using a high-frequency alternator he developed at General Electric Co. labs, Alexanderson in 1906 made his first continuous-wave broadcast from a radio station in Brant Rock, Mass. The program featured a soprano, a violinist and a speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 26, 1975 | 5/26/1975 | See Source »

...voting power of all foreign-owned stock to 20%. This provision is in keeping with the reasoning which prompted President Wilson, assisted by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to call on U. S. companies to form Radio Corp. in 1919 to keep ownership of the Alexanderson Alternator and other important radio patents within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Big Pool Punned | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

...Alexanderson arc, however, can modify as well as modulate the carrier light waves. Hence receivers could tune in on properly differentiated sending lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light Pictures | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

Both systems are still playthings. Yet some day, Dr. Alexanderson imagined last week, "we may see television broadcast from a powerful arc light, mounted atop a single tower high above the city. . . . These light waves can be received at relatively short distances only, perhaps ten miles; each community could then have its light broadcasting system. Light broadcasting may have the same relation to radio broadcasting as the local newspaper has to the national newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light Pictures | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

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