Word: dot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...text of the agreements which they had signed at Locarno (TIME, Oct. 26), a specially leased trans-Atlantic cable was extended directly into the office of the American Associated Press, in order that this supernews might not be delayed by the usual relays and repeaters. Two operators, transcribing the dot-dashed ticker tape which reeled off the cable receptor at better than a word a second, "cleared the whole despatch of 5,000 words in less than two hours?a unique record in cable transmission...
...directions around Kahuku, the ether waves flooded out. Some of them, after 2,372 miles of invisible undulations over the Pacific Ocean, impinged upon an automatic relaying set at Marshall, Calif. Without human aid of any sort, this set passed the sequence of dots and dashes, as it got them from the ether, over another telegraph line to Station KET (Bolinas, Calif.). There an operator put the ether to work again and, after tuning in to synchronizing signals, the lofty spindles of Station RCA (Riverhead, L. I.) caught up the dot-dash skein...
...Dot -dot -dot -dot -dash -dash -dash -dash." It was a code no man could have interpreted. But the pen made a stroke for a dot, left a blank for a dash, gradually moving to the right over the rotating cylinder. Those who watched saw black masses shape into a cap, an eye, a mustache, another eye, a shadow by the nose-it was a portrait of Admiral Robert E. Coontz, U. S. N., then in Hawaii serving as umpire in the U. S. "war game" (TIME, May 4, 11, ARMY & NAVY). When his picture was finished, the pen began...
...light that filters through the film. The gradations of these electrical impulses are very delicate. If put upon the air, static would greatly interfere with them. Instead they are stored until a given amount (two-millionths of an ampere) accumulates. Then it is discharged as a sharp dot with which static does not interfere. Thus static is eliminated and the device can be worked at all hours of the day and night. When the light portions of the negative appear, these dots follow each other so rapidly that they produce a dash. These impulses of even intensity are picked...
...towers at either end of the airway. An aviator flying exactly on the course hears only dashes; if his plane turns to left or right of the course and a coil in his receiving equipment is at an angle to the course, he hears a warning signal, dash and dot, or dot and dash, as the case...