Word: switched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...railways all over the world. The young inventor soon became fascinated by the possibilities of electricity, as developed by Bell, Edison and others. In 1880 he founded the Westinghouse Machine Co. for the manufacture of high speed engines to drive dynamos for arc lighting. He controlled the Union Switch and Signal Co., which manufactured railway equipment. In 1880 he met William Stanley, who had just invented a self-regulating dynamo for lighting service, and signed a contract with him to conduct experiments for the Union Switch and Signal Co. From this meeting dates the growth of the present Westinghouse Electric...
...George Westinghouse (died 1914), inventor of the airbrake, electric switch and signal, transformer, etc.; founder of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. and other interests...
...cousin who stars in the Follies out of the fireplace and answers it. Eventually, an exciting correspondence develops between her and a young engineer in South America who is under the delusion that he is writing to the Follies lady. When he invents a new kind of switch and comes to New York to confer with the New York Central Railroad, the complications begin, which carry every one back to Peru for the last act. This last act, by the way, is just a bit fanciful to say the least. Miss Binney follows the engineer, who persistently and quite unnaturally...
...operation of the set is simple -as it must be for a man piloting an airplane, who has to receive or send messages while continuing his trip. Throwing a switch and turning a large knob till an ammeter on the dashboard shows a maximum reading is the whole tuning up process. A motor generator set, driven by a storage battery which the engine charges just as an automobile does, supplies the necessary pressure of 1,000 volts. Two hundred feet of trailing wire, let out when the plane leaves the ground, constitutes the antenna...
...point of fact the yearning yokel has run the engine of his one-track mind into a blind switch. Managers do read plays. That is to say, managers see to it that plays are read. In the larger offices individuals are employed for that express purpose. They read four to six plays a day. With a shudder they send the ninety and nine incredibly bad plays whence they came. The best they place in analyzed detail on the manager's desk...