Word: antennae
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tarlton organized viewers into the Panther Valley Television Co., whose members chipped in to build an antenna on the mountain and string cables from it into their homes. Thus a name that cable still goes by: CATV, for Community Antenna Television...
CATV quickly caught on in other communities where reception was poor. Antenna builders soon noticed that if they made the towers tall enough, they could pull in signals from distant as well as nearby stations, thereby offering viewers greater variety as well as clearer pictures. But the road from Panther Valley to national prominence was long blocked by the FCC. Not until the 1970s did two events combine to broaden the cable audience dramatically: the FCC's first steps toward deregulation and, more important, the coming of satellite transmission. Since 1975, cable programmers (Home Box Office, a subsidiary...
...other is a blur-the hands, the people, the movement-but your point of focus is beyond them. If you stare at the closer stuff so that you actually see a guy's arm or hand, then you're in trouble. There's an antenna, a sixth sense, inside you that directs the ball past the guy's hands...
...classic case of scientific serendipity. The two young scientists at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J., were using a hornlike antenna to "listen" to the faint background hiss created by stars and other radio sources in the Milky Way galaxy. What they picked up was a faint echo of the creation, the remnant of the cataclysmic fireball, or Big Bang, that gave birth to the universe 15 to 20 billion years...
When Penzias and Wilson first noticed the unexpected background static picked up by their antenna, they considered a number of causes, including the effect of what the German-born Penzias whimsically called "a white dielectric material"-pigeon droppings -in their antenna. But soon they learned from a Princeton group that was trying to detect evidence of the Big Bang that the radiation picked up by their antenna was of far greater significance: its temperature was remarkably close to what scientists had been predicting for radiation left over from the primordial fireball. In theory, this radiation should be equivalent to what...