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Flying blind is nothing new. All trans port pilots do it as a matter of course, letting a robot pilot keep the plane on the flying beam radioed from each major airport. Landing blind is another matter. First done in 1929 by Major James Harold Doolittle while a safety man watched from an open cockpit, it was not successfully executed solo until 1932 when Captain Albert F. Hegenberger managed it at Dayton. Since then, though many a method has been tried for commercial use, none has proved satisfactory enough to permit planes to take-off & land when fog shuts down...
...night last week a yawning Capitol policeman heard a noise down a corridor, tiptoed nearer to investigate. The beam from his flashlight revealed Fulton Bond exploring the Senate restaurant's icebox. Dragged off to a station house where sheepish Capitol police attempted to keep the story quiet, Negro Bond mournfully gave his age as 22, his residence the U. S. Capitol...
Chicago and gangsters are connected in the minds of all schoolboys and Europeans, yet from Chicago comes a distinctly cheery beam to lighten the gloomy pall of crime that hangs over America, the land of the free. The Windy City's crime commission has confidently denied the possibility of a revival of gang wars, declaring that "there is nothing left to fight about." If this statement is true, and not merely an empty vaunting of civic pride, then Chicago has undeniably justified the hopes of the prophets who freed the country from prohibition shackles...
...seemed just around the corner. Jenkins Television Co. was actually selling receiving sets for $119. Now Dr. C. Francis Jenkins is dead, and his company is defunct. The Jenkins sets were made for programs televised by mechanical scanners - rapidly revolving disks with holes or mirrors to juggle the scanning beam. The Farnsworth and RCA-Victor electronic scanners made junk of disk sets. Now, before jumping into television, the radio industry would like to be sure that another technical advance would not similarly scuttle the public's investment...
...Zworykin sender the image to be televised falls on a small sheet of mica covered with millions of microscopic dots of photosensitive cesium. Each tiny dot receives an electric charge according to the amount of light that falls on it. A beam of electrons shot from a cathode tube and controlled by rapidly oscillating magnetic fields weaves back & forth across the sheet of mica 6,000 times per second. The beam discharges the electropositive tension in the dots, and the changing pattern of this discharge modulates a current passing through the sheet. The modulated current, fed into a radio transmitter...