Word: radioed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Preparations of the most laborious and costly sort began more than a year ago. Over $4,000,000 was spent on new equipment for railways, illumination, telegraphs, telephones, telephoto and radio. Since a little rice would be offered to the Sun Goddess by the Tenno, at one point in the ceremonials, a diligent search had to be made throughout the Empire for persons sufficiently exemplary to be entrusted with growing this rice...
...campaign, persuaded Otto Hermann Kahn to act as chairman. Since then 100,000 schools have been enlisted, 59,000 churches, 5,700 libraries, 1,315 Chambers of Commerce, 350 art societies, more than 100 industries. "Back to Melody" programs will be given in churches, schools, concert halls, over the radio in memory of one Franz Schubert who died in Vienna on Nov. 19, 1829, at 31, leaving some 1,100 compositions, six pairs of boots, one hat, 13 pairs of socks, other clothing and bedding, valued, according to the official inventory...
...Frederick August Kolster, who has contributed as much to radio as any man now alive, has invented yet another radio device, a machine for shooting a radio beam at whatever point on earth he pleases. His previous inventions have been the invaluable radio compass, the radio fog signal system, the mobile radio beacon to protect ships in fog, the decremeter which measures wave lengths and dampens radio oscillations, the Kolster radio receiving set. He created the Bureau of Standard's radio section and is its chief. He is chief research engineer of the Federal Telegraph Co. and its allied...
...transmitter consists of a parabolic reflector, at whose butt end is an enormous vacuum tube. The tube sets like the heating element of the common portable electric heaters. The heater's reflector is basin-like. Dr. Kolster's radio reflector is so vast (20 feet across the rim) that it resembles a funnel...
...supposition, such a straight-going beam would be tangential to the earth's curvature and so never reach distant earth points where radio stations may be. By scientific theory, two possibilities exist. The Kolster beam may be skillfully aimed at the Heaviside Layer† and be reflected down to its receiving station, just as a pool player bounces a ball from cushion to pocket. The other possibility is that gravity will drag the beam to the proper curve of the earth...