Word: broadcaster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...River of Doubt." Commander George Miller Dyott, English explorer and writer, started up the Amazon River in Brazil last summer. At tantalizing intervals he informed the world, through his radio set, that he was alive. One message was broadcast from the headwaters of the Roosevelt River ("River of Doubt"). Five weeks ago, Commander Dyott arrived in Manhattan with a photographic record which substantiates the late Theodore Roosevelt's charting of this 900-mile river, running from the Brazilian plateau into the Madeira River, tributary of the Amazon. He saw stone markers which had been left by the Roosevelt expedition...
...debate in New York will be without judges or voting by the audience. The subjects successively will be "Is Evolution True?" and "Is Evolution Anti-Christian?" It is expected the debates will be broadcast. President Hibben of Princeton University, has been invited to serve as chairman of both of these meetings...
...impulses, traveled to Manhattan over the wires. There the moving picture was reassembled. On a small screen (2 x 2½ in.) the speaker's face and movements appeared distinct and clear; on a large one they were distorted badly. Later the watchers in Manhattan saw vaudeville acts broadcast from the A. T. & T. Co. studio at Whippany, N. Y., 40 miles away...
Significance: Television, requiring bulky and expensive apparatus, does not yet loom as a standard addition to the home telephone. But theatre audiences, in the not too distant future, may see super newsreels of prizefights, launchings, inaugurations, broadcast directly from the scene of the event with all their attendant noises. While not yet perfect, television had reached its highest stage of development in last week's demonstration. Engineer Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson of the U. S., with his seven beams of light, John L. Baird of England, with his super-sensitive photo-electric cell and infra-red rays, C. Francis...
...speeches made at the annual dinner of the Associated Harvard Clubs to be held in Hotel Peabody, Memphis, Tennessee, on Friday, April 22, will be broadcast through "The Commercial Appeal" and the "Evening Appeal," newspapers operating radio station WMC. The broadcasting will begin at 10 o'clock, eastern standard time...