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Pipe. Promise of solving the distance problem lies in the "coaxial cable" developed by the Bell Telephone Laboratories of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Consisting essentially of a pair of copper tubes with a bare wire running through the centre of each, this cable can transmit 240 telephone messages or 20 to 40 telegrams simultaneously and was primarily designed for such purposes. But it can also handle a radio frequency band 1,000,000 cycles wide-enough to carry the fluctuating light & shadow of television. The possibility therefore arose of "piping" television from city to city underground. A. T. & T. applied...
Apparatus. The two rival electronic scanners which have left other rivals behind are the Farnsworth dissector tube and the iconoscope developed by RCA-Victor's famed Vladimir Kosma Zworykin. Both are good enough to transmit 6-by-8- in. images with the clarity of oldtime cinemas. The pictures are, in effect, divided into hundreds of horizontal lines and scanned line by line; 24 to 30 complete pictures are transmitted in a second...
...Thomas Hunt Morgan, examined the data, looked at the jars of fruit flies, stared down the microscopes, announced his conversion. Since then there has been little doubt among geneticists that the chromosomes in the germ cells are the theatres of heredity, that the ultimate agents, called genes, which transmit unit characters, occupy definite and fixed positions along the spindly, crooked chromosomes. Since then fame has come to Dr. Morgan and his flies, and to some of his early laboratory helpers, notably to affable, shock-haired Calvin Blackman Bridges of the Carnegie Institution of Washington...
...estimates. Said the President simply: "We have too recently reached our goal of putting 3,500,000 people at work and the beneficial effects of this program and from increasing expenditures on public works cannot be foretold as accurately today as it can two months from now. ... I shall transmit [relief] estimates with far greater knowledge and, therefore, with greater accuracy in sufficient time before the adjournment of this session. . . ." Counting, therefore, on spending for relief in fiscal 1937 only $1,103,000,000, the budget showed a nominal deficit (exclusive of debt retirement) of $518,000,000, compared...
...which contain silica, by miners', sandblasters, quarrymen, tunnel borers. The silica particles erode the delicate lining of the lungs, make them vulnerable to the germs of pneumonia and tuberculosis. If those diseases do not kill, the silica victim usually wastes away to death because his clogged lungs transmit insufficient oxygen to his blood...