Word: radiogram
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Breakfasting with island legislative leaders at his official residence one morning last week, Hawaii's last appointed Territorial Governor, William Quinn, was interrupted by his wife. "I thought you might want to see this radiogram," said Nancy Quinn. "It came a few minutes ago, and Cecily [aged 4] answered the door and opened the envelope. It could be important." It was; from President Dwight Eisenhower had come 1) notification that he had just signed the Hawaiian statehood bill, and 2) orders directing Quinn to proceed with appropriate plans for election of state and congressional officials...
...speed with which messages are delivered depends largely on the size of the town to which they are sent rather than the location, since the bigger towns have more "ham" operators. The average time required for a radiogram by a "ham" station is two days...
...rather a period of harvest. Most of the modern objects which are used so lavishly today had beginnings before 1900. Internal combustion engines, which made automobiles and airplanes inevitable, were running in the 1880's. Radio waves were discovered by Hertz in 1887, and the first paid radiogram was sent from the Isle of Wight in 1898. The first public telephone exchange was opened in New Haven, Conn, in 1878. The "germ theory" of disease dates from the 1860s. It is hard to find an important technological element in modern life that did not have its roots...