Word: antennaed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago, testy old (87) Architect Frank Lloyd Wright casually disclosed his latest high-flown fantasy: a one-mile-high, 510-story office building for the Loop. Topped with a 330-ft. TV antenna, it would be four times taller than the Empire State Building. "It's perfectly scientific, and perfectly feasible," he said, brushing aside questions on how he would get 100,000 office workers in and out of the building on time, or what he would do about the planes that cross the area at considerably less than 5,600 ft. "If you're going to have...
...radio is small enough to be built to fit into a soldier's helmet. It was developed by the Signal Corps, is designed with a normally short range so that squad members can exchange information without fear of eavesdropping by the enemy. But with a "man-from-Mars" antenna attached on top of the helmet, soldiers can talk to, and receive orders from, command posts more than a mile away...
Last week, in cloudy New England, Harvard University dedicated a new radio telescope at the Agassiz Station of the Harvard Observatory, 25 miles west of Cambridge. The telescope's 60-ft. "dish" antenna is steerable (it points anywhere) and is specially designed to pick up 21-cm. radio waves from the great clouds of hydrogen that clutter the universe...
...North Carolina. While Rayburn knew that he could not get the two-thirds vote necessary to override the veto, he felt sure that he could win the simple majority necessary to show that Ike was flouting the clear will of Congress. But Mister Sam's famed political antenna wasn't working...
With its 60 foot paraboloid antenna and intricate electronic recording equipment, the telescope will serve to more accurately map the most distant sections of our galaxy. In a symposium at the Observatory, various scientists will discuss some of the recent achievements in radio astronomy and speculate on what may be uncovered by the new equipment...