Word: transmit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upper end of this tube was split into two branches?one supplying Mr. Beebe with air, the other connecting with a delicate telephone receiver. Thus, Mr. Beebe utilized the column of air which kept him alive, to transmit the sound waves of his voice to an amanuensis at the sea's surface. The device was contrived by Dr. Mark Barr, English physicist, who accompanied the expedition...
...Before Thursday's experiment, of course, stationary pictures were broadcast for long distances, but this is the first time that moving pictures, of moving objects, have been seen over the wires. Television consists in rapidly transmitting still pictures, in speeding up the picture at least 100 times faster than would be necessary to transmit a stationary object or picture. The picture is produced by the passing of a bright light over a screen. Up to this time, and even now, the great difficulty in broadcasting moving objects has been brought about by a lack of intense light. Until a means...
...Washington, D. C., Senator Caraway of Arkansas opened his morning mail, found therein a check for $10. The sender congratulated Senator Caraway for his "magnificent speech" in behalf of William G. McAdoo, asked that he transmit the $10 to Mr. McAdoo's Presidential campaign managers. The check speedily went back to the sender with the words: "You are barking up the wrong tree." Senator Caraway, as everyone knows, is an enemy of Mr. McAdoo...
...impelling bands of ether waves, had already been surmounted by experimenters with the photoelectric cell and amplifier, used in motionless television and telephotography. Dr. Alexanderson's feat was to utilize a beam of light (which in motionless telephotography has from 2 to 20 minutes to trace and transmit the desired light-pattern or image) at unprecedented speed, so that it could render a complete image within the minimum time that the human eye will catch an image, a 16th of a second. This he had done by splitting his light beam into seven parts, letting each part trace...
...craft is to introduce, in rambling stage narrative, bits of daily life, dull except to the few who love inspired satire. Theatregoers who seek effortless entertainment are warned to avoid The Three Sisters. So consistently is the mood of restless boredom maintained on the stage that it will surely transmit itself to any half-asleep onlooker. To those who can emerge from the day's fracas of commercial activity with relish for intellectual adventure, The Three Sisters will prove one of the season's delights...