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...miles of piping daily. Beyond steam pipes, they must take care of inter-University phone pipe lines, pipes to recapture condensed water from the steam, and pipes to carry the compressed air that runs the thermostats. WHRB also has a few of its own pipes in the tunnels, carrying coaxial cables that are spliced in with the Houses' electrical systems...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Circling the Square | 11/14/1951 | See Source »

...Royal Navy. After two years of experimental tests, British scientists succeeded in mounting a TV camera in a watertight container specially welded to withstand high pressure at extreme depths, added a pipe frame containing powerful searchlights, and connected the apparatus to a salvage ship with a coaxial cable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Search for the Affray | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Coast to Coast | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Historical Note | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Standing Room Only | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

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