Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heated air. Seven non-smokers and nine smokers (university students) were tested for three hours on 18 consecutive days, on some of which they smoked actual tobacco before the tests, and on others only the "control." The tests included pulse beat, motor control (absence of tremors), tapping of a telegraph key, muscular fatigue, cancellation of letters for alertness and accuracy, memory span for digits, speed and accuracy in performing addition, reaction time to short, familiar words displayed, and facility in learning to associate symbols and nonsense syllables. To summarize the results, the tobacco smoking tended "to retard and to disturb...
...waiting outside the Presi- dent's door in the hallway? almost deserted because it was thought that the President's health was improving. Regardless of this fact an Associated Press man had been on hand continuously. As soon as the President collapsed, the reporter was away with the news. Telegraph operators had been ordered not to leave their instruments. Only a few minutes later the news was in newspaper offices throughout the country. That was journalistic preparedness, not journalistic luck. But what befell Samuel George Blythe and The Saturday Evening Post was decidedly luck. Only a few days before...
...cable will be a " super-cable " recently developed by leading electrical engineers - Dr. Frank B. Jewett of the Western Electric Co., General John J. Carty, Bancroft Gherardi of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. The distinctive feature is a new copper alloy for the core of the cable, which increases the transmission capacity severalfold...
...enlisted the coöperation of Cyrus Field in 1854. After repeated failures, a cable was laid from Newfoundland to Valencia Island, Ireland, by vessels proceeding from the middle in both directions. On August 17, 1858, the first message went over the wire : " Europe and America are united by telegraph. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will toward men." The first cable consisted of a core of seven twisted copper wires, covered with gutta percha, hempen yarn saturated with pitch, wax, etc., and a spiral sheathing of iron wires, The whole about 6/10...
There are now more than 300,000 miles of submarine cables, about four-fifths of which are owned by private companies, the rest by Governments. The Eastern Telegraph and Cable Co. is the largest single owner. The British and French colonial systems require extensive cable facilities. The longest cable is 7,500 miles between San Francisco and Tokyo, via Hawaii and Guam. The construction and upkeep of cables is costly and difficult work. Frequent breaks require the services of specially equipped vessels for repairs...