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Parks, Florida. When he sold his stock-ticker for $40,000 in 1870, he set up a laboratory in Newark. Later, he moved to Menlo Park, N. J. and still later to Llewellyn Park. He also established a winter laboratory at Fort Myers, Fla. In these places he worked...
Telephone companies have other uses for their wires besides letting you use them to keep in touch with your friends. They lease them to burglar alarm, news and stock-ticker companies. When a convention or concert is to be broadcast from a hall, it is often sent over a leased telephone wire to a radio studio, thence sent out over the air. Because it is easy to transmit music by wire, with a loudspeaker at the receiving end to amplify it, it occurred to Robert Miller, onetime engineer for Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., that such music might be saleable. With...
...last week hundreds of windows in Montgomery Ward & Co.'s plant on the Chicago River flew up as if by prearrangement. In them stood thousands of employes of the mail order house. They cheered. They shouted. They waved their arms. They tossed out rolls and rolls of ticker tape and other paper supplied by the management. Their noise and excitement blended with the toot of tugs and the blare of bands along the river...
This unimportant story has, for the most part, unimportant music. But as a radio experiment Malpopita proved singularly interesting. Speech and such external sounds as the sharp clicking of a Morse telegraph ticker described the action so vividly that no explanation of the story was needed. The performance was conducted, characteristically, by Erich Kleiber of the Berlin Staatsoper. This pleasant bald-headed gentleman (who, at the New York Philharmonic, is overshadowed by the severely classical Arturo Toscanini) has championed more modern opera than any other man in Germany. He directed the premieres of Austrian Alban Berg's Wozzeck (five years...
...Delivery Time, the visitor and his host from Pynchon & Co. were startled by the great electric gong which calls the Exchange to order. They saw Vice President Allen Ledyard Lindley standing on the Rostrum, grave and silent. The hum of trading dwindled to awful silence. A moment later the ticker flashed to the ends of the country the message: PYNCHON & CO SUSPENDED FOR INSOLVENCY...