Word: solomons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...process for projecting television pictures as though they were films. The method of freeing the picture from the limitations of the cathode tube is Scophony's secret, but they have a screen going into London's new Monseigneur News Theatre in Baker Street. Scophony's Director Solomon Sagall has promised full-sized cinema screen television for all theatres of England's Odeon Circuit by year's end. Test showings of Scophony projections have excited televisionists...
...view of the above bit of Biblical maritime history, antiquarians have long been convinced that King Solomon in his years of splendor had a port on the Red Sea, but they did not know where it was. Last week Dr. Millar Burrows of Yale announced that the port had been found by explorations and excavations near Aqaba. The finder is Dr. Nelson Glueck, heading an expedition of the American School for Oriental Research. Aqaba is a town encircled by towering granite hills on a narrow gulf at the Red Sea's northern end. During the War it was captured...
...reason Solomon's port remained so long hidden is that it is a half-mile inland from the present coast. The prevailing winds from the north carry heavy burdens of sand, which have built up the shore and extended it slowly southward into...
...Glueck's finds indicate that the busy inhabitants of Solomon's port, besides carrying on sea trade, ship-building and fishing, smelted copper and manufactured such copper implements as spearheads, fishhooks, nails. Some of the flues in the ancient smelter are still intact, and the north wind causes a strong draft through them. Dr. Glueck believes the necessity for such a natural draft was the reason this site was chosen for smelting...
...seemed to the diggers that the storied visit of the Queen of Sheba may have been motivated by fear that Solomon's new sea trade would interfere with her caravan commerce, and her consequent desire to make a deal...