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...dozen years. The rotating disc with its holes arranged in spirals is his, as is the method synchronizing the television sending and receiving sets. Transoceanic radio and radio telephony are possible because he invented the Alexanderson high frequency alternator. To buy that invention and thus to prevent the British Marconi Co. from acquiring it, the Radio Corporation of America was created. He is R. C. A.'s chief consulting engineer. One of the receiving sets used last week stood in the corner of a ground floor room in his home at Schenectady. He is 50 years...
...Radio Corporation of America is really Admiral Bullard's personal achievement. In 1919 British Marconi interests wanted to buy patent rights to the Alexanderson alternator, invented at the General Electric Co.'s Schenectady laboratories. This was considered the best device for trans-oceantic and ship radio work. Admiral Bullard argued with every personage whom he could reach that Americans must keep ownership of those patent rights. The result was The Radio Corporation of America. But R. C. A. could never have been organized except for the hearty co-operation of U. S. manufacturers of radio devices. Owen...
Baron Guglielmo Marconi of Italy and Mrs. Marconi, to be presented...
...Marconi. At a luncheon given by the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Manhattan, Senator Guglielmo Marconi made the following points regarding Signor Mussolini: "The Government is carried in strong hands. The fortunes of the State are guided by enlightened minds and the country, as a whole, has full faith in Premier Mussolini's energetic policy. He is willing to make great sacrifices for the good of Italy's economic position in the world. There is no false pride in saying that Italians are proud and gratified at the results which have been noted and praised by economists in all parts...
...last week that the Mackay in terests would meet the Newcomb Carlton interests (Western Union) with measures never before adopted by a U. S. cable company with radio. For perhaps five millions, estimators said, the Mackay system could and would set up a "beam" radio service similar to the Marconi Co.'s present, and the Radio Corp.'s proposed, transatlantic services. The Mackay radio system across the Pacific would be in competition with the Radio Corp.'s present service as far west as Japan, but, said rumor, it would not be operated essentially as a radio competitor...