Word: telegraphically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Long Distance Clinic. Heart in New York. Dr. James A. Greer, heart specialist, in Chicago. Dr. Samuel W. Lambert* and 1,500 physicians on the Steel Pier, Atlantic City. Six thousand miles of telephone and telegraph wires. The new method of telephotographing. The electrical stethoscope arid recording device for heart beats, perfected by Dr. H. B. Williams of Columbia University. Loud speakers. Stereopticon...
...rest of the Clubs have annual meetings, and most of them much more frequent meetings--either monthly or at weekly Saturday luncheons during the winter. It is a safe thing to say that practically every Harvard Club throughout the world holds a tense meeting at the end of the telegraph wire, cable, or radio the night of the Harvard-Yale football game...
Improvements for the telegraph and for Dr. Bell's telephone of 1875; the electric pen or telescribe, and the mimeograph; the megaphone; an instantaneous vote-recording machine which Congress rejected because "one of the greatest weapons in the hands of a minority to prevent bad legislation . . . is the roll-call"; the microtasimeter, for detecting slight changes of temperature; the world's first "talking-machine"; carbon filaments for incandescent electric light bulbs; the "Edison effect," an electric valve; the motion-picture camera ; metal filaments for bulbs; the taximeter ; an electric street car and numerous minor contrivances that have brought...
From Ohio, where he had been born, the scene of his early life, his first experiments and his days as a telegraph operator, Mr. Edison removed to Newark, N.J., in 1873; then to Menlo Park, later to Orange, N.J., where his home and large factories now are. Outside "the old man's" office, a placard advises visitors that he is so busy that he finds it "impossible to grant any personal interviews." Within, an absorbed, absentminded, gracious, tireless, cheerful individual carries on his work, with the calm open-mindedness of a scientist, from one day to the next...
...Chicago, it was announced, last week, that the judges of the Superior, Circuit and Criminal Courts, following the recommendations of the Board of Managers of the Chicago Bar Association, are considering barring from the court room during trials : cameras, typewriters, telegraph instruments, radio instruments and telephones. Such a ruling is said to be a first step in a course of procedure designed "to reflect in the newspapers a dignified administration of justice...