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General Electric physicists long ago learned how to talk along a beam of light. Last week they showed how light might carry television pictures...
...light. The receiving set catches the light in a photoelectric tube which translates the message into electricity, then sound. Dr. Taylor has telephoned by this system across the Hudson River, a distance of about 3,000 ft. Anyone with a proper receiving set who could see his sending beam, could hear what he said...
...Adelsohn, New Bedford, C. M. Agrees, Dallas, Texas, M. L. Anshen, Brighton, H. L. Barrows, N. Y. City, P. H. Bates, East Weymouth, P. C. Beam, St. Louis, Mo., F. C. Bell, Los Angeles, Calif., G. F. Bennett, Hingham, H. H. Bissell, Cambridge, L. Brooks, Brookline, S. C. Carpenter, Long Island, N. Y., W. T. Cloney, Jr., Dorchester, S. Cohen, Lynn, J. A. Cooper, Birmigham, Ala., L. Cooperstain, Roxbury, A. H. Daniels, Rochester, N. Y., N. B. DeNood, Rochestor, N. Y., H. E. Dow, Burlington, Vt., S. Duker, Pittsfield, W. C. Everett, Arlington, J. L. Finnan, Waltham, G. F. Frazier...
...year 1886. No expense or genius was spared in her construction, for she was built to crash a path through the ice to the sealing fields, where the smaller, weaker vessels of the seal-fishing fleet could follow. 210 feet long over all, and of 31 foot beam, the sheathing of her three-foot-thick hull is of greenheart, a wood now very rare, but known for its ability to resist the tearing grind of the ice. On one of her first voyages north with the sealers, she carried as a member of her crew a youth named Ronald Amundsen...
...passes, propelled by silent turbines, under the low bridges of the New York State waterway. Her pilot houses drop into shaft-like wells, smoke stacks fall flush to the deck, masts are hinged and lowered by hand-all extraordinary sights on a vessel 300 ft. long, with 43 ft. beam, cargo space...