Word: coaxial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reception for the TV signal. From Parkes the signal was relayed overland to Sydney, flashed to the Moree Earth Station 200 miles to the north, beamed up to the Intelsat communications satellite 22,300 miles above the Pacific Ocean, relayed to Jamesburg, Calif., passed by microwave ground signal and coaxial cable to Houston and finally transmitted to New York for distribution to individual television sets. In spite of the separate systems and the incredibly circuitous routes, both sight and sound arrived in precise synchronization in millions of homes around the world...
FREEDOM INDUSTRIES currently competes in the supermarket and the electronics business. The Freedom Electronics and Engineering plant employs 33 full time workers, making computer power supplies, and assembling coaxial cable and plastic circuit boards. Opened in October 1968, the plant already has assembly contracts with Digital Equipment Corporation, RCA, and Western Electric, amounting to $800,000 gross sales. Bent on developing the division to the point where it is competitive with similar operations outside the ghetto, Williams predicts that gross sales will double over the next two months...
...mushrooming from Behn's original investment of $3,400,000 to $588 million by 1930. Over the years, the company provided South America with an early radio telephone link with Europe and North America, brought nationwide telephone dialing systems to Belgium and Switzerland, built Europe's longest coaxial-cable network. The company's foreign-based operations, however, have always left it vulnerable to worldwide upheavals. During World War II, for example, Behn succeeded in saving his corporation from disaster only by hurriedly negotiating the sale of several overseas holdings. Trying to strengthen the company at home after...
There are two such consoles now. Next year there will be 30. A coaxial cable system is planned which will permit a console to be placed anywhere in the University. "A console in every entry" is our goal, Oettinger grins...
...baseball, 57,000 for football. And that is just the beginning. With club owners more interested now in the tube than the turnstile, Atlanta is a TV promised land so hungry for something to watch that Washington Redskin games and major league baseball games are piped in by coaxial cable...