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...cloudy at any of the observatories the director will press a button and transmit the signal to the Exposition. W. A. Calder, tutor in Astronomy, who has been doing research work in astronomy with the photo-electric cell, has invented and set up the apparatus that will be used on the 24-inch reflector at Oak Ridge...
When the Corporation and the Board of Overseers meet in University Hall this morning it will be in different rooms, in accordance with long-established custom. If a president is to be elected, the Corporation will then transmit to the Overseers a request to allow the Corporation to proceed to the election. When this is granted, the new head will be chosen and the name submitted to the Overseers, who will vote upon it immediately but must then table the matter for at least week. Whether the name of the Corporation's choice will be made public before the Overseers...
Hitherto one loudspeaker has been considered sufficient to transmit orchestral music. The use of three last week, strategically placed, was what distributed the sound as though the players were on the stage, gave what engineers called "auditory perspective." The filters and amplifiers, which Stokowski manipulated, brought out the faintest whispers of the violins as they never have been brought out before. The climaxes, louder than any orchestra could have achieved unaided, were almost deafening but they were not distorted. Offstage singing was also reproduced, with force and clarity...
...with Photo flash bulbs for lighting, with an exposure of about 1/50 sec. The colors were recorded on one special sensitized plate, placed behind a taking screen made up of hundreds of thousands of infinitesimal tri-color (red, green, blue-violet) filters which absorb part of the light and transmit the remainder to the plate. This process produces a transparency which, held to the light, shows a photograph in original color...
...When foreign nations exchange long notes with this country as England and France have recently been doing, they do not cable the notes at their expense, but give them to our ambassadors in England or Paris, who in turn transmit them to Washington at our own expense...