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*Spirited is the English translation of Faust just made by Princeton's Professor George Madison Priest and published last week (Covici Friede, $5). The turning of the tide of battle between fire-puffing devils and valiant angels who attack them by scattering roses, Professor Priest translates thus:
The light-television apparatus, developed by Dr. Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson, derives its carrier wave from a high-intensity arc light. The carrier wave is modulated by the Alexanderson scanning device which translates a picture or scene into electricity (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928). As with the Taylor system, anyone who...
The light-telephone, devised by John Bellamy Taylor, translates sound into electrical impulses (as does an ordinary telephone) and then through a neon bulb into a pink wave of light. The receiving set catches the light in a photoelectric tube which translates the message into electricity, then sound. Dr. Taylor...
The visagraph works as follows: slim beams of light are reflected from a printed page into a selenium cell which translates the blank and printed patches into various electrical frequencies. The currents operate electromagnets which drive pins against a sheet of aluminum. The aluminum progressively becomes embossed with letters as...
The Author. Like his hero, Louis Colman has been a millman (he has hell down multifarious jobs in a lumbermill). Though never an I. W. W.. he has been out on many a lumber strike. Now, at 26, he has finished with sawmills, lives in Manhattan, translates from the...