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...transmitter consists of a parabolic reflector, at whose butt end is an enormous vacuum tube. The tube sets like the heating element of the common portable electric heaters. The heater's reflector is basin-like. Dr. Kolster's radio reflector is so vast (20 feet across the rim) that it resembles a funnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Focused Radio | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...went south to training camp with the "New Yorks." His teammates kidded him because they thought he was fresh; Elmer, puzzled and proud, started to leave the club. But the boys knew that Elmer wanted to make a speech over the radio so they handed him an electric heater and told him to go ahead and to say something nice to Coolidge who was listening in. That made it all right with Elmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 8, 1928 | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Perfection Heater & Manufacturing Co., of Cleveland, makes heaters for taxicabs and luxurious motor cars. Its assets, patents, trademarks and physical properties were bought last week by the Eaton Axel & Spring Co., also of, Cleveland. The equipment will be transferred to Eaton's bumper factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Mergers: Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...trifle over-conscious of his bigness, beauty, brutality. Mary Ellis, the shrew, battled gamely and gave in irresistibly. Their troupe is excellent and the laughs resound, particularly from those who think Shakespeare highbrow. Among the modern accessories: a carpet sweeper, short skirts, silk hats, goggles, a radio, an electric heater, revolver shots, an automobile, a flashlight photograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 7, 1927 | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...baker heater committee is holding a session"?porters are not supposed to visit one another or converse on trips. When they do huddle for a conversation the group is referred to as in the old days when cars were heated by stoves resembling bakers' stoves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Century | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

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