Word: belling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...centuries men have dreamed of the eye that would penetrate stone walls and miles of space. Last week sight at a distance (television) came true. In Manhattan, in the auditorium of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Walter S. Gifford, President of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., talked to his Vice President, General J. J. Carty, in Washington, D. C. Said President Gifford, dapper, cheery: "Hello, General, you're looking fine. I see you have your glasses on." Out of the loudspeaker, General Carty's bass voice boomed: "Does it-ah-does it flatter me?" President Gifford carefully viewed...
...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 the achievements of his predecessors and direct the work of many men to last week's success...
Method: To obtain satisfactory television on a large screen, 300,000 optical fragments must be transmitted and received each second. The best speed of Inventor Baird of London has been 30,000 to the second. By the new Bell system, a rate of 45,000 to a second is maintained. In the new system, as in Inventor Baird's, the object to be transmitted is divided up into many parts by beams of light flowing through a revolving disc. The variations of light and shade on the face are changed into variations of electrical current by three large photo...
Following a month of delays and postponements the appeal of the ten Harvard students convicted in the Harvard Square "riot" will be heard in the East Cambridge Superior Court immediately after the spring vacation. The exact day has not yet been set, but Stoughton Bell '98, counsel for the defense, announced yesterday after a conference with R. T. Rushnell '14, prosecuting attorney; that the first part of the week of April 24 would see the opening of the trial...
...seeing over the telephone is not a new idea," continued Professor Chaffee, "it has been thought of ever since the invention of the telephone, but it was only last Thursday night that it was accomplished. Among many others J. F. Jenkins of Washington, The General Electric Company, and the Bell Telephone Company, have been foremost in the experimenting with television. I think that great credit should go to the Bell Telephone Company for its success in both the Trans-Atlantic Telephone, and in television...