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...Olav used to be Prins Alexander Edward Christian Frederik of Danmark; but when his father was made King of Norway (1905) he was given one name and one alone, Olav...
...General Electric laboratory at Schenectady last fortnight people peered at the small 3" x 3" screen of Dr Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson's television receiving set. They were waiting for the performance of the first playlet broadcast by television. It was J. Hartley Manners' The Queen's Messenger. There being only two parts, there were only two actors...
Philip Peabody, retired rich Bostonian, when he reached Manhattan on the Scandinavian-American Frederik VII, completed his 114th trans-Atlantic voyage. Two-hundred trips is his goal...
...Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson, mechanical as well as electrical genius, took Mr. Moore's neon tube and made it the heart of television devices on which he had been experimenting for half a dozen years. The rotating disc with its holes arranged in spirals is his, as is the method synchronizing the television sending and receiving sets. Transoceanic radio and radio telephony are possible because he invented the Alexanderson high frequency alternator. To buy that invention and thus to prevent the British Marconi Co. from acquiring it, the Radio Corporation of America was created...
...Died. Frederik Forrest Peabody, 67, onetime (1907-17) President of Cluett, Peabody & Co. (Arrow collars); following a cerebral hemorrhage; at Santa Barbara, Calif...