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...container when expanding. Linked with a long towline, the rafts would float together until help could come. To call for help there was a waterproof, 10-inch square, 15-watt radio transmitter run by dry cells. If these gave out, a waterproof hand generator could be used. The antenna would go aloft tied to a hydrogen-inflated balloon. For the guidance of rescue ships, smaller orange balloons would be blown up, cast on the ocean waves every 15 minutes...
...hour after hour, as she crossed the Atlantic, the Hughes plane's KHBRC signal thundered down the ship's wake into Ground Radio Chief Charles Perrine's receivers at Flushing, L. I. In the plane, Radio Engineer Richard R. Stoddart adjusted the length of the trailing antenna, controlled at will the direction of the radio beam he was transmitting. He had achieved in the design of his transmitter an efficiency formerly impossible in airplane radio...
...perfected by Lieutenant Thurlow, Flier Hughes let a gyro-pilot do most of the flying, chatted every half hour or so over a powerful radio transmitter to a base at the New York World's Fair that was using a towering trylon of that future exhibition for an antenna...
...Ormesby Bank, four miles from Middlesbrough at the edge of the North York Cleveland moors, months of experiment were triumphantly concluded when an Soft, steel antenna caught 70 minutes of television program transmitted from Alexandra Palace through 220 miles of fog-thickened English air. Freak bounces of ultrashort waves have been recorded: Alexandra Palace signals have been picked up as far away as South Africa. But 50 miles has been the generally accepted limit for reception of reliable pictures...
...latest invention is an antenna arranged behind a stack of books in a shelf in such a way that electrical waves in a perfect state of balance, flow between the antenna and the bookcase...