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...with the government-owned Hashemite Jordan Broadcasting Service, the junket provided his first professional contact with TV. Biggest beef: the "24-hour-a-day 'disk jockey.' It is just appalling. Perhaps that is because in Jordan we like to think of radio as a field where you transmit education, through entertainment...
...22nd underseas cable and the first phone cable (the others can handle only telegraph messages) can transmit 35 calls simultaneously over each of its two lengths, more than doubling present transatlantic phone capacity. Service will be inaugurated sometime this fall and by conservative A. T. & T. estimate should be at full capacity within two years at the standard rate of $12 per three-minute New York-London call. With no atmospherics to throw it off, the submarine phone cable is bell-clear, is expected to be working at all times. Last week grey, ramrod-straight Monarch Captain James...
...delegates and 1,850 alternates, to jam hotels and motels for 50 miles around. A fantastic corps of 4,000 reporters, pundits, photographers, radio and television performers, spielsmen and technicians (almost double the number in 1952) will swarm around Chicago's International Amphitheatre employing 400 veteran telegraphers to transmit 600,000 words an hour, sending photo plates whirlybirding from a rooftop heliport, poking television's Cyclopic eye into every nook and cranny of the amphitheatre (see RADIO...
...some of the biggest pay lodes in industrial history. In 1948 Bell Mathematician Claude Shannon, projecting earlier studies by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Norbert Wiener, published Communication Theory, a complex mathematical scheme for measuring information content in communications, as well as evaluating the performance of systems that transmit words and pictures. The theory opened new horizons in telephone and TV transmission, has already found its way into the Air Force's Distant Early Warning (DEW) radar fence...
...transmission of nerve impulses. Trying to learn more about cholinesterase, Biochemist Irwin B. Wilson discovered that nerve gases (and certain insecticides) cause death by adding to the nerve cell's cholinesterase something that damages it. The something is a phosphoryl that destroys the nerves' ability to transmit impulses to muscles...