Word: mega
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...that he holds the broken shells of three of the toughest. Hitherto each television station has been using six megacycles, almost six times the total wavelength space filled by 745 licensed stations in the U. S. broadcast band. The DuMont transmitter has been reduced to a relatively modest three-mega-cycle sprawl. The DuMont transmitting system is said to throw its pictures well beyond television's paltry 50-mile effective range. This it has done in the laboratory through its ability to use longer wave lengths which are effective beyond the horizonwide limit of television's usual ultrashort...