Word: antennas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Power of Prayer. With the help of a radio encyclopedia and a few friends, Hemingway set up a one-tube transmitter that ran on a storage battery. The antenna was made of bicycle rims, and even a dog walking under it would joggle the station off frequency, but he kept it going two or three hours a day, six days a week with scripture, organ music, singing, and talks to shut-ins. Hemingway called his station WMPC after Lapeer's Methodist Protestant Church (which later became the Liberty Street Gospel Church...
...transmitter of the Collins Radio Co. at Cedar Rapids, explained the Bureau of Standards, was pointed at the moon. So was the receiving antenna at Sterling. The wave went up and back (450,000 miles in 2½ seconds), vaulting high above the bulge of the earth...
...proved that they could build conventional planes; now with German help they proved that they could build first-rate jets. In 1947, the first really topnotch Russian fighter, the jet MIG-15, appeared. It had a high rooster-like tail, a barrel-like fuselage, and an ancient radio antenna jutting out into the slip stream. But it had swept-back wings, quick visual proof that the Russians and their German experts had been delving deep into transsonic research. It was light and maneuverable and powered by the best existing jet engine, the Rolls-Royce Nene, which the British government sold...
...explosive charge goes off and cuts the automatic parachute loose (to keep the Grasshopper from being dragged by the wind). Then a pre-set timer sets off another explosion. Out pop three metal legs, and the Grasshopper rises to a standing position. Another explosion shoots out a thin, fishpole antenna and turns on the batteries. From then on, the Grasshopper is ready for duty...
Rear View. William B. MacDonald Jr. of Chicago's Mid-States Corp. (house trailers) had a 12½-in. TV set built into his 1951 Cadillac sedan.* The viewing tube is fixed at a 45-degree angle on the rear floor of the car, the antenna protrudes from the trunk. Cost of the set plus installation...