Word: ores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speak on the "Dutles of a State Geologist" at a meeting to be held under the auspices of the Geological Club at the Foxcroft house this evening at 8 o'clock. Professor Lane was a member of the Michigan Geological Survey for 20 years and is a expert on ore deposits. The meeting will be open to all members of the University...
...Marconi himself was having heavy weather of it, even with all the money and facilities he was able to command. But as is always the case, failure only served to spur on the real dyed-in-the-wool enthusiast. When the queer properties of a piece of galena ore, or a crystal of silicon, carborundum and several other minerals was discovered, feeble little signals were occasionally heard, and this sealed the fate of many young men. They were able to communicate with each other at rare intervals over short distances, and once in a while heard some of the large...
...impossible to buy some transmitting apparatus at all. Mr. Lee DeForest then brought out what he was pleased to term the "Audion" detector. It was a little incandescent lamp, with one or two fixings on it, and it was intended to take the place of the crystal of galena ore, or the bit of silicon. But it was found to be thousands of times more sensitive than the bit of galena or silicon. Immediately the amateur went mad over the improvement, and the DeForest company found themselves completely swamped with orders for detectors. Every expedient and subterfuge conceivable...
...would be the case. Long distance records were hung up nightly. A transcontinental test was arranged, and when the night arrived, the organization was such that absolute quiet prevailed from coast to coast, so that there might be no interference. A message was sent from Portland, Me. to Portland, Ore. and the answer returned. Another from New York to San Francisco, still another from Chicago to New Orleans and still another from the headquarters of the American Radio Relay League in Hartford to one of the members in Los Angeles, Calif. The latter message was started from the library...
...Albert Edward Herrmann, of Lincoln, Neb.; Daniel Riggs Higbee, of Fowler, Colo.; Lewis Marshall Hurxthal, of Mansfield, O.; Walter Stuart McClellan, of Hamilton, N. Y.; William Lionel McClure, of Lawton, Okla.; Samuel Mufson, of Passaic, N. J.; James Greenleaf Simmons, of Wellesley Hills; Paul Edwin Spangler, of Eugene, Ore.; Toussaint Tourgee Tildon, of Fort Worth, Tex.; Lester Ray Whitaker, of Berwick, Me.; Walter Belknap Whiting, of Summit, N. J.; and Harold Vanderelst Williams, of Reading...