Word: raytheon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Design for Living. The Federal Communications Commission, which has been holding hearings on postwar broadcasting and microwave plans, heard the most ambitious yet. The Raytheon Manufacturing Co., a major manufacturer of electronic tubes for the Army & Navy, announced that it is prepared to begin construction this year of a coast-to-coast chain of microwave transmitting stations along airline routes. This system, says Raytheon, will...
...Relay to anyone with a receiving set a coast-to-coast broadcast of a movie, television or a facsimile of a newspaper. Raytheon says that microwaves will make possible much better television and radio reception and faster telegraphy than is now possible...
Beyond the Horizon. This sweeping scheme was outlined by Raytheon's engineer Joseph Pierson as he applied for three microwave bands, at 1,900 megacycles and above. Said Pierson: if it gets these allocations, Raytheon will start work at once on the eastern (Boston, New York, Washington) and West Coast terminals of the microwave system. Raytheon plans to build a string of stations on western mountain tops, from Mt. Adams, Washington, to Mt. Whitney, California. Eventually the east and west terminals will be connected by chains of relay transmitters at about 30-mile intervals across the country...