Word: disc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engineers, Edwin H. Loftin and S. Young White, last week announced that they had perfected a compact self-recording phonograph; and were going to install duplicates in public booths. For 25? a customer speaks the message he is too inept, lazy or hurried to write. He may mail the disc or he may give it to a telephone operator to play over long-distance. The Loftin-White device also answers telephones, automatically records messages. Suggested name: postephony...
...Crimson players who in handing the pack about in front of the visitors net, allowed the opposing defencemen to gather when it seemed as if a quick shot would have found a comparatively undefeated not. The Dartmouth skaters, on the other hand, had great difficulty in controlling the disc at all and were unable to capitalize when deGive, the Harvard netman, was drawn far out of position...
...between music or other entertainment is the theory upon which all radio advertising is based. A variant of this appeared last week when Durium Products Corp., makers of "Hit-of-the-Week" phonograph records, announced that this month they would issue, in the same envelope, a four-in. disc containing music and advertising matter. Name of this new medium is "Durium Junior." For more than two years Durium Products has been selling flexible, shatterproof, one-side recordings of popular tunes, on news and cigar stands. Peak sales have reached 500,000 weekly, at 15? per disc; but the average...
...Berlin suburb of Dahlem, walked down Faradayweg to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Silicate Research. There they heard Professor-Doktor Wilhelm Eitel, physical-chemist, director of the silicate research, speak of "one of the most sensational discoveries of the decade." They surveyed the discovery, a small metal disc which would do what scientists have been predicting and working towards for years ?make electricity out of sunlight...
...invention is the work of one of the institute's youngest scientists, 29-year-old Dr. Bruno Lange. His first sun disc, developed several years ago, was copper covered with copper oxide. Lately he has used other metals and oxides, has found some which will develop from sunshine enough current to light an electric bulb, drive a small dynamo. Dr. Lange will not, of course, tell what metals he used...