Word: baird
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inaugurations, broadcast directly from the scene of the event with all their attendant noises. While not yet perfect, television had reached its highest stage of development in last week's demonstration. Engineer Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson of the U. S., with his seven beams of light, John L. Baird of England, with his super-sensitive photo-electric cell and infra-red rays, C. Francis Jenkins in Washington, Edouard Belin of France, these had hounded success for many years. But it remained for Dr. Herbert Ive's,* bearded, bespectacled chief of the Bell television research staff, to correlate...
Died. David Baird, 87, onetime (1918-19) U. S. Senator from New Jersey; following an acute kidney condition; at Camden...
...they went calling. They called on President William Allan Neilson of Smith College and on Colyumnist Heywood Broun of the New York World; on Advertiser Bruce Barton and President Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale, Sport-Writer W. O. McGeehan and Actress Genevieve Tobin, Dr. Frank Crane and Critic Baird Leonard of Life. At these, in the pairs named, and at other notables, they directed a rushing stream of questions: "What style of writing did the early Babylonians use?" "What is coral? . . . a centaur? . . . a Bunsen burner? . . . the longest bridge in the world?" "How do kangaroos carry their offspring?" "What...
Seeing Things at Night. In London, Engineer John L. Baird, experimenter in wired television (TIME, Feb. 22), demonstrated his success at utilizing rays adjacent to the visible spectrum-invisible infra-red rays-to see things in complete darkness by mechanical means. The process involved isolating the invisible rays at their source (a special "search-light") and passing them through or to a medium that would render their effect visible. Since infra-red rays can be cast farther than any visible rays, and will penetrate fog and smoke more readily, the inventor predicted important military uses...
Died. Senator Albert Baird Cummins, 76, veteran Iowa political leader; at his home in Des Moines, Iowa, of heart disease. (See THE CONGRESS...