Word: statics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Owners of fine radio receivers understand the clangor of nearby thunderstorms and the clatter of distant ones. But a third kind of static, a soft hissing, las been unexplained until last week. Karl Guthe Jansky of Bell Telephone Laboratories announced that hissing static comes from the Milky...
After studying the hiss for a year, Researcher Jansky determined that it was the effect of a 14.6-metre wave at a frequency of about 20 million cycles a second. If. like thunderstorms and street cars, the source of the static is terrestrial, the hiss should have the same intensity all year round. But it varies with the hours of the day and the seasons of the year, as if Earth periodically gets between the radio receiver and an extra-terrestrial source of the hiss. In this variation the Jansky waves differ from Dr. Millikan's cosmic rays...
...creates an atmosphere most favorable to the production of humorous human-interest stories for every front page; there is an influence extending even from Washington Street to Cambridge which makes the headline "Many Years a Baker in West Roxbury" read like the proper introduction to an obituary; the dry, static condition of their surroundings compels the journalists to write a few inches of padding concerning the weather so that people actually read it. And then, there...
...little about them because all domestic transport lines, Eastern Air excepted, use radiophone (voice) transmission. E. A. T. planes are equipped with radiophone for short distances, the more penetrating dot-dash radio telegraph for long range. Pan American Airways, whose ground stations are far spaced through tropical latitudes where static is frequently bad, uses code telegraph exclusively. Phone-users may, if reception is poor, whistle their messages in dots & dashes...
...dynamic system compared with the static system of history. The controls of the static age, namely the price system of production, are opposed to the controls which must govern the dynamic age of Technology. Under the price system the accumulation of wealth means the accumulation of debt certificates?wealth proceeds by the creation of debt. The present total accumulation of public, private and corporate debt in the U. S. amounts to $200,000,000,000, or expressed in another way, claims against the producing machinery of the U. S. have doubled since...