Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, Secretary of Commerce Hoover talked next. Over the telephone wires his voice, his face, the minutest movements of his lips and head were brought to the watchers and listeners in Manhattan. As he spoke into the transmitter, small circles of light moved across his face, so rapidly that they seemed to bathe it in a uniform bluish light...
...variations in light and shade, changed into electrical impulses, traveled to Manhattan over the wires. There the moving picture was reassembled. On a small screen (2 x 2½ in.) the speaker's face and movements appeared distinct and clear; on a large one they were distorted badly. Later the watchers in Manhattan saw vaudeville acts broadcast from the A. T. & T. Co. studio at Whippany, N. Y., 40 miles away...
...prizefights, launchings, inaugurations, broadcast directly from the scene of the event with all their attendant noises. While not yet perfect, television had reached its highest stage of development in last week's demonstration. Engineer Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson of the U. S., with his seven beams of light, John L. Baird of England, with his super-sensitive photo-electric cell and infra-red rays, C. Francis Jenkins in Washington, Edouard Belin of France, these had hounded success for many years. But it remained for Dr. Herbert Ive's,* bearded, bespectacled chief of the Bell television research staff...
Rousing, a gaunt sad figure, bent over the candle light...
...investigation by Dr. Donald Gregg has brought to light the careers of over two hundred Lampoon editors subsequent to their abandonment of the task of tickling the undergraduate risibilities. Journalism and the law have claimed the greatest number of the college humorists, which would appear to indicate that the faculty of favile use, on abuse, of the English language determined the course into which these gentlemen directed their life efforts. Architecture, strangely enough, has attacked the next largest total, possibly, the four years of practice in reproducing the structural designs in the Yard created a mystic urge to imitate...