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The problem presented by the injurious effects of ionized gases on the insulation of high voltage underground cables is of such importance that several manufacturers of these cables, and power companies as well, are supporting financially an investigation of it at the Engineering School, it was disclosed yesterday by R...
Summoned by their lustily bawling village crier, the peasants have gathered, suspiciously at first, then with growing excited interest at their schoolroom, outside which halted a truck sent by the Ministry of Education, equipped with an electric generator from which cables led to a whirring machine inside the schoolroom that...
The subject, "The Development of the Modern Submarine Telegraph Cable", is one upon which Professor Kennelly is regarded as an authority. Before he became the principal electrical assistant to Edison. Professor Kennelly was chief electrician of a cable repairing steamer and senior ship's electrician of the Eastern Telegraph Cable...
Fluent had been Owen D. Young's arguments that British Cables & Wireless, Ltd., was a "menace" (TIME, Jan. 20). Cocky had been Newcomb Carlton's assertions that the "menace" was a "bogy." Because I. T. & T. controls Postal and because a merger with Radio would mean less competition...
It was Mr. Young's argument concerning threatened British control of world-communication to which Mr. Carlton took most pointed exception. "There is no menace," said he. "It [the menace] is one of the most fantastic bogies dressed up in my experience." He described British Cables & Wireless, Ltd. as a...