Word: baird
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BAIRD...
...invented the vacuum tube-a milestone for television as well as for radio. In 1923 a Russian immigrant, Dr. Vladimir K. Zworykin (now an RCA engineer) patented the iconoscope-the tube that changed television from a somewhat mechanical to a purely electronic science. In 1928, a Scot, John Logie Baird, telecast a woman's face from London to the S.S. Berengaria, 1,000 miles out at sea, and in the U.S. fuzzy facsimiles of Felix the Cat were televised. Three years later, in a Montclair, N.J. basement, Dr. Allen B. Du Mont brought forth a workable television receiver...
TIME is wonderful! First it was [a picture of] "Miss Hush," and now "The Walking Man" [TIME, March 8]. How about a photograph of the horse destined to win the Kentucky Derby this year? WM. BAIRD...
Stephen M. Schwebel '50 was reelected chairman of the United Nations Council for the coming year, in elections held last night. Other officers named include Donald S. Connery '50 and W. Baird Bryant '50, vice-chairman; Peter Stafford '49, secretary; and Eliot Berkley...
Executive positions will be held by two of the delegates when the meeting convenes this afternoon. W. Baird Bryant '50, vice chairman of the Council, will preside over the entire conference in his post as president of the model Security Council. Eliot S. Berkley '46 will be Secretary-General...