Word: frederik
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light-television apparatus, developed by Dr. Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson, derives its carrier wave from a high-intensity arc light. The carrier wave is modulated by the Alexanderson scanning device which translates a picture or scene into electricity (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928). As with the Taylor system, anyone who has the proper receiving apparatus and can see the Alexanderson beam, can also see what the television apparatus is seeing...
...received birthday greetings from Sir Oliver Lodge, Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson, Lee De Forest, John Hays Hammond Jr., Robert Andrews Millikan, Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lament, Henry Herman Westinghouse, and many another. Their greetings indicate the hope if not the confidence that "in a few months" or "a few years" the flame of Nikola Tesla's genius will weld one more astounding new device for mankind...
...Brig. General George Van Horn Moseley, U. S. A., 55, chief of the 4th Section (supplies and evacuation) of General Pershing's Wartime General Staff; General Charles Gates Dawes's assistant in organizing the Bureau of Budget in 1921; now aid to the Assistant Secretary of War, Frederik Huff Payne (TIME, May 5); and Mrs. Florence DuBois, 36, daughter of the late James Barber, co-founder of Barber Steamship Lines; in Manhattan...
Significance of the occasion was the size of the screen. It was the first demonstration of life-size television. After three years of work Dr. Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson, G. E. researcher, had developed his images from postage stamp size to a scale where the theatre owners deemed it suitable for inclusion in their regular show program...
...Owen D. Young, internationally-minded Board Chairman of General Electric Co., is waiting hopefully. He has been talking about the possibility ever since 1923. Last week came some fulfillment. Mr. Young's oldest son, Charles, works in the General Electric Research Laboratories at Schenectady under famed Dr. Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson. He has invented a new type automatic carbon recorder for use in conjunction with Dr. Alexanderson's radio television inventions. Last week Charles Young & colleagues stood by at Schenectady and watched a facsimile front page of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin appear before their eyes, blurred...