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Since that time, she said, "we have been able to reach England but unable to receive any replies." The BBC continued regular weekly programs by short wave radio and plans were made after the cable failure to transmit the debate in the same...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cable Break, Radio Interference Foil Plan for Transatlantic Debate | 2/27/1959 | See Source »

...Scientists in general are not competent to transmit either the results of their work, or the motives behind their work to the public. They are pictured by cartoonists as isolated individuals, working alone, above or beyond humanity. And it is important today to have the whole public--not only the thinking and reading public--aware of science and the motivations of scientists...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Local Scientists Pace Nation in IGY Work | 2/27/1959 | See Source »

...grow. Every moviegoer who saw Don Ameche star in The Story of Alexander Graham Bell* knows how the first telephone call was made. Bell was no electrician but an elocutionist and teacher of the deaf. He thought that he could devise a mechanical gadget like the human ear to transmit and receive voices by electrical impulse, had a crude instrument made according to his specifications by his assistant, Thomas Watson. Bell was fiddling with the instrument in the attic of a Boston rooming house one day when he spilled acid on his clothes. Cried Bell: "Mr. Watson, come here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Voices Across the Land | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

Television equipment aboard an unmanned satellite will transmit to the ground observations on the ultra-violet region of the sky. This part of the electromagnetic spectrum is so blocked by the earth's atmosphere that such measurements cannot be made from the surface...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Telescope in Satellite To Make First Maps Of Ultra-Violet Region | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Faster Ticketing. American is working with IBM on an electronic system that can transmit information on every American flight across the U.S., enabling clerks to tell instantly which seats are free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Jets Across the U.S. | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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