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...London last week British Broadcasting Corp. and Baird Television Ltd. rushed preparations to open an experimental television station this month in Alexandra Palace atop a hill in North London. About July 1, when manufacturers have had a chance to test their sets, the station is expected to start three-hour daily programs. British enthusiasts, who call themselves "televiewers," have been promised sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Television | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

Farnsworth Abroad. Year and a half ago Britain's Parliament, deigning to give ear to the television buzz, appointed a committee to find out what Baird Tele vision Ltd. had to offer. Baird was still puttering with mechanical scanners. Fearing the snorts of the committee, Baird sent a frantic SOS to Philo Farnsworth. That tireless young man sped to England and signed a patent lease agreement, with the result that spectators in London's lofty Crystal Palace viewed a fashion show, a horse show, a boxing match, a Mickey Mouse cartoon, all televised from ten miles away. Television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Television | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

Walter S. Baird--to be Assistant in Electrical Engineering for one year from Sept. 1, 1934. A.B. St. John's College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 22 APPOINTMENTS FOR THIS YEAR ANNOUNCED | 9/29/1934 | See Source »

Furthermore, only history will prove who is right and who wrong, President Roosevelt or Senator Glass; but if Ancel Baird would like to make a little bet of $1,000, TIME to hold the money and decide, the money to go to any worthy charity, I will take the same side as Senator Glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 26, 1934 | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...Reader Baird mend his manners. The late John Sharp Williams retired from public life aged 69, died at 78. Virginia's Senator Glass is hale, vigorous, clear-minded at 76. That he continues to oppose President Roosevelt's monetary policies, as does many another U. S. citizen, may scarcely be taken as proof of senility. As for advertising "trickery": Are any other readers unable to see at once that the Heinz copy is advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 12, 1934 | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

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