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Word: cableless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1947-1947
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...radio relay system connecting New York and Boston was demonstrated last week by Bell Telephone Laboratories. The cableless cable uses microwaves about 7½ cm. long, which are not affected by weather, static or most kinds of man-made interference. The waves move in straight lines and refuse to curve with the earth, so they cannot make Boston in one jump. The telephone people skip them from hilltop to hilltop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eight Jumps to Boston | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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