Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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QUIET STREET?Michael Ossorgin?Dial...
SAINT JOHNSON?W. R. Burnett?Dial...
...provided with a small slit through which a beam of light passes at each swing of the pendulum. The beam of light falls on a photoelectric cell and produces an electric current of short duration each second. These current pulses drive an auxiliary second's counter and clock dial for registering the time and also give magnetically impulses to the master pendulum for maintaining its vibration. This clock is timed once a day by radio signals from Washington which registers on a moving tape along with the clock ticks in such a way that the timing can be done...
Without asking the Senate's permission the C. &. P. Co. fortnight ago changed 450 telephones in the north wing of the Capitol and the Senate office building over to the dial system. Senators fussed and jiggled with the new instruments, lost patience. Particularly annoyed with these "abominable nuisances" was Virginia's peppery little Senator Carter Glass. He offered a resolution to rid Senators of dial telephones. Said he: "I object to being made an employe of the telephone company without compensation...
...revolt spread to the House where North Carolina's Representative Abernethy introduced a resolution to oust the 700 dial instruments on that side of the Capitol...