Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-five years ago the U. S. Army Air Corps consisted of one plane and one pilot. He was a keen-eyed, pipe-smoking bantam named Lieut. Benjamin Delahauf ("Benny") Foulois. Up from the ranks of infantry, he joined the Signal Corps in 1908, learned to fly balloons, went to Fort Myer, Va. where Orville Wright was trying to sell the Army its first airplane. He laid out the test course-the amazing distance of ten miles-and was chosen official passenger by Orville Wright for two reasons. First, he weighed only 126 Ib. Second, as Orville Wright...
...dives from 15 crack planes of the Fleet. But all naval eyes were still on the Indianapolis' fore truck. By tradition one more thing was necessary to complete the ceremony. Three little flags broke out spelling Y W X, Yoke William Xray, the Navy's "Well Done" signal. That meant the President was pleased...
Four dashes, repeated for one minute every three minutes, is the radio beacon signal of the lightship that guards dread Nantucket Shoals. The first lightship was stationed off the shoals in 1854. Three years ago Lightship No. 117, a 132-ft. craft equipped with every device science could think of to protect transatlantic shipping, was launched at Charleston, S. C. and took up its rough and lonely post 40 mi. southeast of Nantucket Island...
...morning last week fog curled in thick shrouds around the little vessel. Useless was the 16,000 candlepower electric light glaring on her masthead. Every 15 seconds her fog whistle emitted a mournful blast. The beacon signal, sounded by a motor-driven key controlled by clockwork, went out continuously instead of on the fair weather schedule of 15 min. every hour. The submarine oscillograph, synchronized with the beacon, throbbed cyclic warnings through the water...
...daybreak the White Star liner Olympic, 23-year-old sister ship of the Titanic, picked up faintly the signal of No. 117, set a course for it. Almost seven hours later a horrified shout burst from a lookout. Bells jangled, the four giant screws threshed madly in reverse, seamen rushed to man lifeboats. Carried helplessly forward by its own momentum, the 46,000-ton liner crunched into the little lightship, cut it in two. Four of the lightship's crew of eleven were never found, and three died after being picked up by the Olympic's lifeboats...