Word: coaxial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high price of high-frequency, coaxial cable in the past has made the wiring of the Yard impossible. Before Christmas, the Network made an abortive attempt to reach freshman receivers via regulation cable, but broadcasting signals were absorbed before they could travel between the transmitter in Win thorp House and yard radios...
...Coaxial cable is now available through Army surplus sales for what Bouyoucos calls "a song." Substitution of the more efficient cable into the entire radio system is planned for the coming months. Bouyoucos added, "Now if we could only keep the University from unexpectedly switching electrical transmitters and leaving us broadcasting over dead lines...
...claimed another triumph last week: network color television had been tested and proved. Using the Bell System coaxial cable, CBS had broadcast a Technicolor movie short and color slides from Manhattan to Washington (225 miles) and return...
...first time, an event in Washington was televised over a brand-new 225-mile coaxial cable to New York.* In Manhattan's RCA building, New Yorkers saw General Dwight Eisenhower place a wreath at the base of the Lincoln statue, heard others make brief speeches. But comparing the image with newsphotos of the same event, they found it as blurred as an early Chaplin movie. Proud as television was, it admitted that the Washington-New York hookup would not be in regular use for six months, that a coast-to-coast network was still years away...
Raytheon plans to use a system of automatic transmission of microwaves along such a chain of towers, as an alternative to the expensive coaxial cables used in television. Raytheon's broadcasting stations will scan a wide area, transmit what they see from coast to coast...