Word: alexanderson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...light-television apparatus, developed by Dr. Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson, derives its carrier wave from a high-intensity arc light. The carrier wave is modulated by the Alexanderson scanning device which translates a picture or scene into electricity (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928). As with the Taylor system, anyone who has the proper receiving apparatus and can see the Alexanderson beam, can also see what the television apparatus is seeing...
...Alexanderson arc, however, can modify as well as modulate the carrier light waves. Hence receivers could tune in on properly differentiated sending lights...
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...
...received birthday greetings from Sir Oliver Lodge, Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson, Lee De Forest, John Hays Hammond Jr., Robert Andrews Millikan, Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lament, Henry Herman Westinghouse, and many another. Their greetings indicate the hope if not the confidence that "in a few months" or "a few years" the flame of Nikola Tesla's genius will weld one more astounding new device for mankind...