Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Detroit. But as it came hurtling in toward the city at 7:30 one morning last week, complications developed up ahead; the Philadelphia-bound Pittsburgh Night Express-which was running 48 minutes late on the same track-had been stopped up ahead by a block signal near the station at Bryn Mawr...
Youngest member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Buster Old, a 23-year-old photo-lab technician in the Army's Signal Corps, has been an amateur zoologist since childhood, is now a highly respected, unofficial investigator for the Smithsonian Institution. Ever since August, the Smithsonian's molluskmen have been expectantly watching the mails for the tobacco tins, metal film containers and glass medicine bottles in which he has sent them nearly 500 specimens of Korean frogs, lizards, snakes, crayfish and snails...
Captain Matthew Rhem of the Signal Corps sent a greeting from Gen. Willis D. Crittenberger, commander of the First Army, to the armed forces throughout the world. The message circled the globe in one-eighth of a second and when it returned to Governors Island it activated a miniature atomic pile. The splitting uranium atoms then exploded a magnesium bomb, severing a ribbon to release pigeons from a coop. --New York Times...
...program then returned to the scheduled events. General MacAnthony told Cleopatra that it had been a long time since she came down to the U of Rome. Cleopatra, reflecting on her college days, later mentioned "I can still see my old house-mummy." Then, at a prearranged signal, freshmen and sophomores raced off to find the Tree; which, of course, is what the day is all about. The sophomore president had secretly planted a seedling a few days before; if the freshmen found it first, they could yell their class cheer for the first time...
...were surprised to find, instead of the usual test pattern, a strange series of vertical bands. Soon these changed to still pictures of London's Houses of Parliament and a landscape, then to a live model who moved little more than her eyelashes. The continuous tone signal accompanying the pictures was finally broken by an announcer. Casually, he explained that the testing period was being devoted to "experiment with and development of the compatible, all-electronic RCA color television system...