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Word: marconis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kolster's beam differs from Guglielmo Marconi's. In the Marconi system a number of wires at each side of the sending antennae keep the waves from spraying sideways, but not from up-&-down. It is not properly a beam at all. It is a very narrow sheet of short waves that go around the earth like a ruff. They suffer the same troubles, in less degree, that the diffuse long waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Focused Radio | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...wished to be extraordinarily cunning, excessively sly, he might have written to the American Code Co., 206 Broadway, Manhattan, commissioning Master Codist Frederick Ainsworth Hall to prepare a private code for Pancake messages. Codist Hall, secretary to Lord Roberts during the Boer War, onetime (1919-21) expert for Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd., would have devised a code similar in size to the Commercial Cable Code, charge about $1,000 for 1,000 copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cable Rates | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

According to Sarnoff it was the War that put radio on its feet, because influential men began to invest huge sums in the Marconi Radio Company. This was made necessary because the German submarines cut all the transatlantic cables. From 1920 on, the radio has advanced by leaps and bounds. From a business point of view, this new invention was sure to be a success because it accomplished the apparently impossible. The radio has saved approximately $30,000,000 for America, said Sarnoff, for it has greatly cut down the expense of transcontinental communication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 4/17/1928 | See Source »

...Taurus. Unimaginative, conservative creatures of habit. Under this sign were born . . . Sir James M. Barrie, W. G. Marconi, . . . William Shakespeare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 13, 1928 | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...creatures of habit. They make good friends and good homes. Some of them will become lazy and sensual. They are sturdy of body and should beware of heart and throat diseases. Under this sign were born Chauncey Mitchell Depew, Sir James Matthew Barrie, Sigmund Freud, Christopher Morley, William Guglielmo Marconi, Ulysses Simpson Grant, William Shakespeare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

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