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...mosaic on the mica is in effect a photo-electric cell flattened out and each particle is a tiny photocell in itself. When lights and shadows of any scene fall upon those particles, the light waves set up a positive electro-magnetic tension in the particles. The oscillating cathode beam of electrons discharge that positive tension. Thus each particle is alternately charged by light waves and discharged by the electron beam 24 times a second, which is a comfortable frequency of illumination for the human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Iconoscope | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

This process in the particles on the mica screen in turn modulates a high frequency current which passes over the mica mosaic. That current can be connected to a radio system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Iconoscope | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

Beer glasses and mugs, mirrors, linen, uniforms for barkeeps and barmaids, cabinet work including paneling for bars, murals, mosaic and composition floorings; also sausage, pretzels, pickles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Resurrection | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

...stack of bills laid before him. William McKinley (in bronze) glowered out of a corner. Down through the heavy tracery of a chandelier "The Eye of God'' painted on the ceiling was fixed upon the grey Hoover head as it bent to its task. Around the mosaic floor stood Senators, Representatives, Cabinet members, military aides, clerks and bodyguards silently watching the 31st President perform his final duty, wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Seventy-second's End | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

...Oklahoma's Professor Frank Armon Melton noted in an airplane mosaic map of Horry County, S. C. some strangely regular furrows in the terrain. Later with Professor William Schriever (University of Oklahoma) he examined the ground directly, learned that the people of the neighborhood called the vast grooves "bays." The two scholars found more than 1,500 large "bays" (some 2 mi. long) between Norfolk, Va. and the Savannah River, decided that 100,000 to 1,000,000 years ago a comet must have grazed the earth. The comet head composed of hundreds of separate meteors, must have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Earth's Core & Crust | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

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