Word: coaxial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confused with TV's coaxial cables. Throughout most of the East and Middle West, both microwave relays and coaxial (underground) cables are used for network TV transmission. A coast-to-coast coaxial cable was completed in 1947 but carries only telephone calls and has never been supplied in the West with the expensive terminals and other equipment necessary...
...there are 109 stations in 66 cities; the hour of TV time that cost $120 on July 1, 1941 cost $3,250 last week. There are four Eastern networks, each with an outpost on the West Coast; the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. is building the last section of a coaxial cable and radio relay system which will link them all up early next year...
Movie theater owners, who have also been suffering from TV competition, had their own cheering section. Though not telecast over the air, the Louis-Savold fight was experimentally piped by coaxial cable over closed circuits to six cities, shown on eight theater TV screens at prices ranging from 64? to $1.30. More than 22,000 customers saw the show and every theater had a full house. In Baltimore, S.R.O. signs were up an hour before the fight began...
From Murray Hill the new clock's time signals will be distributed over the U.S. by the wires of the Bell System. They will govern radio and television stations, coaxial cables, even the operations of power networks. Bell's time clock will be checked periodically against the time of the U.S. Naval Observatory and the National Bureau of Standards. But no one expects that the three will ever get far out of step. Estimated variation in the Bell timer: one second in 30 years...
...engineers, who had learned their lessons during Harry Truman's inauguration in 1949 when they tried to cover too much ground with their cameras, this time had only five pick-up spots. All shots were fed to a master control room at the Wardman Park Hotel, carried by coaxial cable to New York, where they were siphoned off to the networks and then fed back to Washington TV sets. This meant that images Washingtonians saw on their screens had to travel from Washington to New York and back (estimated time for the trip: one-454th of a second...