Word: coaxial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ninety-six cameras will be deployed in Chicago and San Francisco to bring the big show (at a cost of $17 million) to a forecast 120 million people-the biggest mass audience in history (twice the number that saw the 1952 convention, twelve times the 1948 show). ¶ New coaxial cables have been laid. Nearly 73,000 miles of TV channels will link 400 stations in 270 U.S. cities. ¶ An electronic blanket has been thrown over both convention cities. To harness all the new gadgetry, some 2,700 radio-TV people have already swept into the Midwest, hauling...
...install it in a sample cable. Penicillin, invented for $20,000, cost millions to prepare for commercial use. RCA had invested $50 million in TV before it reached the U.S. living room, has another $30 million tied up in color TV; telephone companies buried millions of dollars worth of coaxial cable, engineered with TV in view, long before they had network customers. Monsanto tested 15,000 chemical compounds at its Creve Coeur, Mo. laboratories to find a herbicide that would kill weed grasses but not harm corn or soybeans, spent six years and $750,000 on the product, which...
...compelled WBS to shut down because excess radiation from their coaxial cable to the dormitories interfered with commercial radio stations in the Wellesley area. WBS had hoped to delay this suspension until Christmas, but was forced to respond immediately to the FCC ultimatum...
Business Career. According to a friend, Don Quarles has "one bad habit: hard work." He studied theoretical physics at Columbia while working full-time at Western Electric. Later, at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, he wrote technical papers, e.g., Motion of Telephone Wires in Wind, helped to develop the coaxial cable, pioneered other telephone and TV equipment, directed the lab's vast World War II radar program. Usually he brought a fat briefcase home from work every evening to his green-shuttered home in Englewood, N.J. In 1952 he moved to New Mexico as president of Western Electric...
...Your television set is not a vending machine for higher learning. It can, at best, be an invitation to knowledge. That in itself is very much . . . But the coaxial cable alone will not pump culture into anyone's veins-child or adult. Despite what any educational theorist may say, one can't possibly grow up to be educated without wide reading...