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...your friends. They lease them to burglar alarm, news and stock-ticker companies. When a convention or concert is to be broadcast from a hall, it is often sent over a leased telephone wire to a radio studio, thence sent out over the air. Because it is easy to transmit music by wire, with a loudspeaker at the receiving end to amplify it, it occurred to Robert Miller, onetime engineer for Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., that such music might be saleable. With other engineers as associates and himself as president, he formed Wired Music in Manhattan, announced that he would...
...hundred-&-one details of internal construction will be completed and the Akron may be hauled out by her mobile mooring mast for a first test flight late this month. Yet to be finished are such equipment as the controls of the steering and elevating surfaces; the radio, designed to transmit over a 6,000-mi. range; the telephone system of 18 instruments; the system for electric power control throughout the whole ship by a switchboard weighing only 200 lb.; the crew's quarters within the envelope. These items, like all others that went into the Akron, must be passed...
...already has conceived "a means that will make it possible for man to transmit energy in large amounts, thousands of horsepower, from one planet to another, absolutely regardless of distance...
Miscellany. And then there were a great number of miscellaneous items: nasal sinuses displayed by Warren Beagle Davis of Philadelphia. Harrison Stanford Martland of Newark's pieces of radium-rotted bones. How mites which live on rats transmit typhus fever, by Jesse Bedford Shelmire Jr. and Walter E. Dove of Dallas. The description by Fred DeForest Weidman of Philadelphia of the skin infection technically called dermatophytosis, popularly ringworm, and in certain advertisements "athlete's foot." Xanthomatosis, which makes children look like frogs, squatty and popeyed, and which Merrill Clary Sosman of Harvard found X-rays will relieve and sometimes cure...
...Diamonds. The subject was a fascinating one, but what aroused the interest of the Vagabond even more was the personality of Dr. Palache. Here was the scientist type at its best. A rather elderly bearded man whose enthusiasm for his subject was apparent in every phrase contrived to transmit his enthusiasm to the audience whose absorbed interest made them hang on every word. Incidentally, Professor Palache is one of the world's authorities on diamonds, and tomorrow's lecture on the occurrence of diamonds and diamond mines should be as interesting to the layman as to the mineralogist...