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...Maxim gun's inventor, Hiram Percy invented gun and engine silencers, but never anything important for the radio he loved to play with...
Organized in memory of Inventor Hiram Percy Maxim,* founder of the A.R.R.L. and until his death in 1936 its president, the relay spree celebrated the inauguration of service over the league's new head quarters station. At Brainard Field, Hartford's municipal airport, A.R.R.L. had had its station WIMK to cover the world until the 1936 Connecticut River Valley flood covered the station deep in mud and oil, wrecked it. Founder Maxim had died a month before the flood, was succeeded in the league's presidency by Dr. Eugene C. Woodruff, head of Pennsylvania State College...
Across the continent they talk, call each other "Old Man," but seldom meet. Their relative freedom in the use of U. S. air waves they credit to The Old Man (pseudonym under which Founder Maxim wrote for QST-see p. 67). When in 1914 Inventor Maxim was unable to reach with his Hartford transmitter a fellow amateur 30 miles away in Springfield, he arranged to have his message relayed by a third amateur operator, conceived and organized the A.R.R.L. to put such relays on a nationwide basis. In 1919, when the U. S. Government was reluctant to give...
Neither RCA nor Inventor Zworykin will predict the specific use to which this system will be put. They describe it as a "forward looking" invention which might be used to carry television programs to a relay station for rebroadcasting, or else for wireless telegraph communication. The equally forward-looking FCC is already nursing a headache over the prospective problem of assigning ultra-high-frequency wave lengths when each television station needs a slice of the radio spectrum six times as big as the total band of kilocycles now occupied by all U.S. broadcasting stations. This idea of an ultra-high...
...prospector-inventor had met a promoter named Archie Moulton Andrews, had been persuaded to let him display the Schick shaver along with his own Lektrolite cigaret lighter at the Chicago world's fair. After a disagreement over distributing rights, Promoter Andrews developed his own dry shaver, the Packard, and began to sell it with noisy ballyhoo. A typical advertisement pictured a small child from behind & below, with a caption: "JUST AN IDEA OF HOW SMOOTH YOUR FACE FEELS AFTER USING A PACKARD LEKTRO-SHAVER." Jacob Schick sued Archie Andrews for infringement of his patent, but he lost...