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...year, Federal Radio Commission, arbiter in all wireless controversies, thought it had solved a problem. Confronted by many a press demand for the few remaining short-wave-length radio channels not in use, the Commission allocated 20 transcontinental channels for the sole use of newspapers and press associations to transmit news. Under the American Publishers Committee, a number of public utility corporations were to be formed to handle wireless press matter. But the problem was not solved, the Commission soon discovered. Loud were the cries of newspapers and news services charging unequal allotment, curtailment of their radio press facilities, expense...
...summer students at Columbia University. Said Dr. Coffin: ". . . Brachiopod teachers are at fault. Brachiopods are mollusk-like creatures, the most ancient inhabitants of this planet, which have always reproduced their own species, but never had any part in the evolution of other living creatures. . . . There are brachiopod teachers who transmit their own minds but do not stimulate students to advance human knowledge...
...this opinion he was joined by the late great George Westinghouse. Both counselled against attempting to make and transmit Alternating Current, despite its comparative cheapness. Mr. Westinghouse had an alternative idea-Compressed Air, upon which he had been experimenting (e.g. his air-brake). The original plans of Cataract Construction Co. actually called for a plant at the Falls whence Mr. Westinghouse felt confident he could transmit compressed air to take the place of steam behind industrial pistons in Buffalo, 20 mi. away...
...there is to be, the telegraph companies now appear to have the whip hand. R.C.A. radio circuits terminate at New York on the East Coast and San Francisco on the West Coast. Blank of its stations is the whole interior. Not only can it transmit no domestic messages, but all messages from the interior for radio transmission abroad must be relayed to the coast over Western Union wires. Tentative, temporary are R.C.A.'s "agree ments" with these companies. Therefore, to escape this bondage, R.C.A. Communications has applied to the Federal Radio Commission for 67 wave lengths to be used...
...rubber paper, cotton, oils, porcelain, and other similar materials which have the property of insulating the electric circuit. It is only by employing insulating materials that electric currents can be made to flow in the electric conductors. Otherwise, they would leak away, and it would therefore be difficult to transmit power any considerable distance...