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Last week Westinghouse Electric Corp. came up with an idea: instead of building higher & higher towers, why not transmit television from planes flying high in the sky? Westinghouse engineers talked it over with Glenn L. Martin Co., which proposed to build B-29-sized planes for the job. Ground studios would beam programs to the planes, which, at 30,000 feet, could then transmit the programs to receivers within a 211-mile radius. Only 14 planes would have to be in the air to service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Stratovision | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

Raytheon plans to use a system of automatic transmission of microwaves along such a chain of towers, as an alternative to the expensive coaxial cables used in television. Raytheon's broadcasting stations will scan a wide area, transmit what they see from coast to coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Microwave Miracles | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...News That's Fit to Print"; Van Anda got the news, saw that it was fit, and printed it. He treated the Versailles Treaty with the competitive zest of a tabloid editor covering a beautiful blonde's murder trial, used 24 telegraph and telephone lines to transmit the full text from Washington, and gave it 62 columns of type. No other U.S. newspaper ran it in full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: News Judge | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...From Leyte in the Philippines, the Army Signal Corps was ready to transmit Douglas MacArthur's afternoon communiqué. Leyte's first words: "Have you anything on the election yet?" The answer: "Not yet." Said Leyte: "Just break in when you have anything." Then came the communiqu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Election: Sidelights | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

They found that the various strands in a bundle of nerves, like the wires in a telephone cable, differ in the impulses they transmit; that individual nerve cells are "like tubular electrical condensers"; that the impulses of pain depend on the tiniest nerve strands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nobel Prizes, 1943, 1944 | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

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