Word: telegraphers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Agreed to consider defense testimony from American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in defense of monopolistic practices. After a three-year investigation at a cost of $1,500,000, Federal Communications Commissioner Paul Walker three months ago submitted to Congress his preliminary report on A. T. & T., suggesting among other things a 25% cut in telephone rates (TIME, April 11). A. T. & T. claimed that it had been refused the right to cross-examine witnesses and offer a prepared defense. Last week. FCC agreed to consider such defense before submitting its final report to Congress...
...failures was to get the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. business. On this attempt, strangely, he was accompanied by his father's bitter political critic, Congressman Hamilton Fish, a director of one of the insurance companies represented by Jimmy. Loud Mr. Fish did the talking and President Walter S. Gifford of A. T. & T. was not helpful...
...44th birthday of the Duke of Windsor passed by in Great Britain last week with no other press notice than a seven-word announcement in the London Daily Telegraph. But the society of The Octavians, several hundred Britishers who have banded together to perpetuate the memory of the Duke as Edward VIII, were determined to accord the day more formal recognition. Some 250 members, largely middle-aged men and women, crowded into a second-rate restaurant in London's Holborn district for a commemorative dinner and dance. From the French Riviera, where he is summering with the Duchess...
Until Thomas Alva Edison tackled the problem of multiple telegraph messages, the most that could be sent over one wire at a time was two. Edison increased the number to four. Later, Western Union engineers developed the "Multiplex" system which enabled them to transmit four communications simultaneously in each direction. "Voice carrier" currents of different frequencies, in Multiplex groups of four, recently made possible 32 messages in each direction over a four-wire circuit. Last week, Western Union announced that an electrical tone generator borrowed from a musical instrument had tripled the figure...
...beam of light and a photo-electric cell. Whether in the transmitter or in the linotype activator, the light is focused on the coded dot combinations and reflected into the photocell. The varying combinations cause correspondingly varying pulsations in the photocell. These pulsations actuate the appropriate mechanisms in the telegraph printer and in the linotype (or Intertype). Its inventor claims that the speed of the Semagraph is limited only by the speed of the linotype. The number of teletype printers that can receive Semagraph copy from one transmitter is unlimited. Semagraph copy can be sent in different type sizes...