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Tucked away in the Great Blue Hill weather bureau's long disused kite-room is the station's 3 kilowatt transmitter, powerful enough to produce 20,000 watts of effective radiated power. This was a gift from Professor E.H. Armstrong of Columbia, inventor of the electronic circuit that made FM a reality. From its 630 foot-high platform, this power plant will make possible strong high-quality signals within a 65 mile radius, an area of some one and one third million families...
Professor E. H. Armstrong of Columbia, the inventor of F.M., gave the Lowell Broadcasting Council its three kilowatt transmitter...
...brought forth a new, all purpose television tube which can: 1) receive any kind of color television that has been proposed so far, including both the CBS and RCA systems; 2) receive ordinary black & white broadcasts; 3) switch itself automatically from one system to another. The tube's inventor: Nobel Prizewinner Ernest O. Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, who built the first model in his Berkeley (Calif.) workshop...
Irving Florman, self-made inventor (cigarette lighters, mine detectors), onetime Broadway play angel and songwriter (Chauve Souris), resigned last week as U.S. ambassador in La Paz. His diplomatic career had lasted 22 lively months. A heavy Democratic campaign contributor, Florman maintained generally good relations with the Bolivian government. But his relations with his own Government in Washington were always testy. After his appointment by President Truman, he spent a full year at La Paz without confirmation by the Senate; the appointment was not actively pushed by the State Department. Recalled for "consultations" with the President last May, he signed...
...Yanqui inventor claimed credit for having 1) encouraged a 1950 petroleum law allowing foreign oil companies to resume prospecting in Bolivia, 2) arranged for the U.S. to buy Bolivia's strategic tungsten, 3) promoted resumption of payment on $145 million worth of defaulted Bolivian bonds. However others felt, Bolivians thought kindly of the ambassador. Before Florman left last week, they gave him the Order of the Andean Condor, their highest decoration...