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...Macy & Co.), Jacob Schiff (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), and other leaders of _New York's Jewish community-the Alliance filled a great gap in the lives of immigrants. There a man could come to learn English, use the library or the gymnasium, attend religious services or smoke a pipe with a Landsmann over a game of checkers. There mothers, still wearing sheitels, could learn the language that their children were picking up quickly in public school. And the kids themselves could come after school to work at their hobbies in Alliance playrooms, attend dances and do their homework...
...ordinary one-inch copper pipe, says Professor Harold Barlow of University College in London, can be tricked into carrying 1) a heavy load of power, 2) 2,000 telephone messages, and 3) 20 distinct television programs-and all at the same time...
...wartime head of the R.A.F.'s radio research station at Farnborough, is now considered Britain's leading authority on microwaves. He has found that waves 8.6 mm. long (40,000 megacycles) can be forced to travel long distances, with very little loss, through the kind of copper pipe that plumbers...
...Barlow's system, the 8.6 mm. waves will stick to the inside of the pipe. On the outside surface travel somewhat longer waves (10,000 megacycles). If properly started on their journeys, the two sets of waves will not bother one another. The metal of the pipe can carry electric power, and neither the inside nor outside waves will interfere with...
...Barlow believes that plain copper pipe can replace multiwire telephone cables as well as coaxial television cables (copper tubes with insulated copper cores). It is much cheaper than either of them. Chief remaining obstacle is the high cost of the magnetron tubes that must be used in its repeater stations, but he thinks their price can be cut down by large-scale manufacture...