Word: broadcastings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thought Waves. In Leningrad, Professor Vladimir Behterev, of the Leningrad Academy of Science, claimed great advances in the detection of electro-magnetic waves from the human body. "Thought waves," i. e., ether waves broadcast by the cerebral nerve centres, were alleged to have been received with sensitive apparatus in 70% of the experiments made. Men were said to be better receivers of transmitted thoughts than women. "The more accomplished a man is, the better he transmits and the worse he receives." It was not reported how the thought waves, when detected, were translated from meaningless physical effects into intelligible human...
Televisor. In London, a concern called Television Ltd. obtained licenses to retail the "televisor," a radio device invented by John L. Baird* of Glasgow that permits "looking in" as well as listening in. Broadcasting from a televisor station in London was to begin at once. The receiver, costing £30, consists of a point of light moving swiftly over a revolving field of ground glass. The motion of the point of light is governed by current received from the transmitting station, where the image of an object or person is made to pass over a photo-electric cell at immense...
During the middle ages, such a slip would have simply served to prove idiosyncrasies of the eye were divinely ordered. Now cynical newspapers broadcast the failure and unfriendly governments discourage pilgrimages to the healers...
...Over 100,000 Rhinelanders waited breathlessly for the largest church bell in Europe to toll the hour of midnight, to announce that the last Allied soldier had actually departed from the First Rhineland Occupied Zone. Slowly the great bell teetered on its pivots, causing a faint squeak to be broadcast over the radio to all Germany by the great Koenigswusterhausen Station. Then came the triumphant clang of the clapper itself, followed by the roar of the crowds. "Deutschland! Deutschland ueber Alles!" they chanted, and then joined in the old hymn "Grosser Gott, wir loben Dich." Lifting their hands they took...
...Pittsburgh, the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers convened. Their president, Engineer S. E. Dibble, touched upon the heat of the future in a manner coolly prophetic: "It is no more improbable to broadcast heat waves than it was to broadcast sound waves. . . . The day is not far off when we shall see huge centralized heating plants broadcasting heat to be utilized at far distant points in homes, plants and office buildings...