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Word: kahuku (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attached to a telegraph wire that carried the dots and dashes to powerful radio station KIE at Kahuku. There ether waves, 16,975 metres long, were given impulse as the dots and dashes came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wireless Photography | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

...directions around Kahuku, the ether waves flooded out. Some of them, after 2,372 miles of invisible undulations over the Pacific Ocean, impinged upon an automatic relaying set at Marshall, Calif. Without human aid of any sort, this set passed the sequence of dots and dashes, as it got them from the ether, over another telegraph line to Station KET (Bolinas, Calif.). There an operator put the ether to work again and, after tuning in to synchronizing signals, the lofty spindles of Station RCA (Riverhead, L. I.) caught up the dot-dash skein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wireless Photography | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

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