Word: scans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then Germany, which was sending blobby pictures with the mechanical scan ner, heard of Farnsworth. To his Philadelphia laboratories went suave, crisp Dr. Paul Goerz, head of Fernseh Radioaktien-gesellschaft of Berlin, and a tall, super cilious radio engineer named Rudolph Moeller. After secret conferences and demonstrations, the Germans leased the Farnsworth system for Fernseh, backed by the Nazi Government. The price was not revealed, but as part payment Farnsworth got U. S. rights to Bosch and Zeiss patents controlled by Fernseh. These include a yellow receiving screen which is supposed to be superior to RCA-Victor's green...
...fifty odd men who do not scan the comic sections, 28 freely admitted that they occasionally glance at what has been called America's greatest contribution to humor. But the other 32 disdainfully denied touching the "filthy sheets", for they consider it beneath their dignity as Harvard students...
Ethiopians remained the rage in Tokyo last week but Japanese began to scan their credentials. The yellow Emperor's subjects continued to lavish official hospitality on the chocolate Emperor's envoy Daba Birrou (TIME, Sept. 30), but after elaborately banqueting a certain Mr. Thomas they found out that he fits only the fourth part of his description of himself: "I am an Ethiopian, a graduate of Cambridge University, a millionaire and desirous of taking a Japanese bride...
...shared the benefits of a College which is permeated with the liberal tradition. While it is difficult to understand the significance of this unless you have lived in some country working on fascistic, communistic, or socialistic basis, it is a great heritage. Unless men of broad and understanding vision scan our economic, political, and social structure today, searching for the answers to our problems, we will find ourselves in a meaningless sea of confusion...
...Publisher Hearst's answer to the Associated Press's Wirephoto (TIME, April 29). The Hearst invention is portable, requires no leased wires, can be hooked up to any telephone. It resembles a conventional telephoto set in employing a tiny beam of light and photo-electric cell to scan the photograph. But the light impulses are converted into a shrill whistling sound. An ordinary telephone transmitter is clamped in place to catch the sound. At the receiving end of the telephone wire the waves are caught, re-converted into light which registers the picture on a sensitized plate. Total...