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Electron Switching. The trick in color television is to make the electrons that represent red, for example, hit the phosphor that glows in red. In the Lawrence tube, the wire grid does this switching job. It is hooked up, through the proper electronic apparatus, to the signal that comes over the air. When the signal tells it that certain electrons represent red, the wires of the grid are charged with enough electrical potential to focus the electron beam onto a line of red phosphor. When "green" electrons come along, it switches them to green phosphor, etc. So, jumping from phosphor...
...first practical application of underwater TV by the Royal Navy. After two years of experimental tests, British scientists succeeded in mounting a TV camera in a watertight container specially welded to withstand high pressure at extreme depths, added a pipe frame containing powerful searchlights, and connected the apparatus to a salvage ship with a coaxial cable...
...that most of the smuggling and tricks for getting around the trade bans were the work of professional operators financed by "Communist agents who are throwing a good bit of gold around." Most formidable of all the professionals are Ernst Wollweber and the trained, dedicated underground men of his apparatus...
...western operations. Out of Copenhagen (where he operated from the same office building used by the Gestapo) he spun a web of sabotage. During the Spanish Civil War, his men concentrated on ships carrying supplies to Franco, sabotaged 21 German, Italian and Spanish ships. During World War II, his apparatus turned to Nazi installations in Norway and to materials that the Swedes were selling to the Germans. Under German pressure, the Swedes , arrested Wollweber one day in 1941 and prepared to hand him over. But he casually produced papers showing that he had become a Soviet citizen...
...mission to Germany took steps last week to withhold 6,000,000 marks in ECA counterpart funds from a Ruhr steel firm that has been engaging in illegal trade with the Communists. It was the first, but probably not the last, real countermeasure against the Wollweber apparatus...