Search Details

Word: hertzian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...with the best claim to discovery of radar's principle was the 19th Century German physicist Heinrich Hertz, who in 1887 bounced a hertzian (radio) wave off a zinc plate and caught its echo on a resonant circle of copper wire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radar | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...from the Paramount budget-$6,000,000 in salaries alone. He wangled reductions in rentals and interest, ordered executives to file expense vouchers-a startling innovation-and marched through the payroll with a big blue pencil. In the film industry, which is notorious for its nepotism, such Hertzian tactics were bound to stir up trouble. And having made enemies right & left, Mr. Hertz finally called for a showdown on his right to hire & fire. He lost. So horsy John Hertz retired to his polo and his racing. Early in 1933, unable to pay its bond interest and loaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Paramount Salvage | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

Society for Advancement of Science he made what was considered a daring speech indeed. To have praised live Jew Albert Einstein would have been madness, but he did praise dead Jew Heinrich Hertz, discoverer of "Hertzian waves." And bold Max Planck said: "History proves that the greatest and most vital discoveries were made by scientists who worked for the sake of pure science only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: False Planck? | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

...generated and, he says, sent out wireless waves the same year Marconi established wireless communication between France and England. Tesla claims priority, because he con ceived his system six years earlier, in 1893. The theoretical path of Tesla's waves were through the earth, not through the air as Hertzian waves go. On Long Island, Tesla built a steel tower 187 ft. high surmounted by a 68-ft. bossed dome. The tower was to disseminate wireless power. Mr. Morgan died in 1913. Dr. Tesla lacked money. He abandoned the tower, let it be destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tesla at 75 | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...prepare his audience for the ominous thing he had to say, Dr. Heyroth briefly described the electromagnetic spectrum and the nature of the various radiations, from the long, red end of the visible spectrum out to Hertzian or radio waves; and from the short, violet end of the visible spectrum out to the cosmic (Millikan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cosmic Nemesis? | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | Next