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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bell Telephone demonstrators took pains to make it clear that Voder does not reproduce speech, like a telephone receiver or loudspeaker. It originates speech at the touch of an operator, synthesizing sounds to form words. The men who built it were able to do so because in their telephone researches they had made a close study of how speech sounds are made by the human larynx, mouth, breath, tongue, teeth and lips. With electrical filters, attenuators, frequency changers, etc. they found that they could produce 23 basic sounds; that intelligible speech could be synthesized from various combinations of these sounds...
...frozen Dominion tundra, Pilot Hume lost his vision because of a frosty windshield. He slowed down to clean it off by moving into a large snowbank at the side of the road, since it would save his rather feeble brakes undue exertion. Like the boy who tackled the snowman built around a fire hydrant Hume found that all is not snow that drifts. The ancient carriage demolished itself against a submerged culvert...
...collection of wooden shacks in Austin. Then it struck oil on part of its 2,000,000 west Texas acres (its State endowment). In the next ten years the university built a $10,000,000 campus. Two years ago it hired, at $15,000 a year, one of the nation's top-notch football coaches, Dana Xenophon Bible. Last week, having a swank campus and the beginnings of a football team, University of Texas set out to make itself an important educational institution. It hired as president (salary: $17,500) a top-notch educator, Homer Price Rainey, 42, director...
...some years Dr. Irving Langmuir of General Electric Co. has investigated the properties of monomolecular layers- that is, oil films, one molecule thick. He finds that in such layers molecules all stand on end, lined up in the same direction; that layers any number of molecules thick could be built up on a pane of glass by repeatedly dipping it in water covered with a monomolecular film. All this, however, came under the head of "pure-science" research...
...trucks may be driven right aboard. Depending on the fuel requirements, the Babb Special's payload capacity is reckoned at from 8,000 to 10,000 Ibs., more than a Douglas DC-3 passenger transport. But a DC-3 costs $114,000. The Babb Special, which will be built in Babb's own plant, is to sell for from...