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...Edison Co. Later he organized his own light and electric companies and, after 18 years, sold them to General Electric. Four years ago he invented vacuum bulbs used in telephotography (sending still pictures by electricity or radio); three years ago he improved the bulb so that it would transmit moving pictures. His present researches seek to make lamps that will give light without heat. Towards that goal he has made some progress. On his inventions the Government has granted 100 patents. His home is at East Orange, N. J., not far from that of Mr. Edison...
...brought 400 representatives of 51 nations to Washington last week for an international radio telegraph conference. The only previous meeting of like purpose was at London in 1912, when only dots and dashes could be telegraphed without wires. Rules devised at that time still control wireless methods that have transmitted 1,000 words a minute and can transmit 2,000 a minute; that can be directed over a wave beam to specific receivers; that carry sounds and sights (wireless telephone, telephotography and, experimentally, television...
William S. Thompson, Western Union telegraph operator, last week announced the invention of a device that will transmit distress sig- nals (or any other messages) automatically, thus releasing the oper- ator from his duty of signaling for help even while the ship sinks. It can be used on airplanes as well...
...impressed deeply by the ingenuity of Mr. Baird's "optical lever," a series of whirling lenses mounted on discs, which break up an optical image into minute constituent parts. They were even more impressed by the Baird photo-electric cell, of the colloidal selenium type, which could capture and transmit the minute image parts at unprecedented speed. Last week, between sessions of the British Association, members sought out Inventor Baird in Leeds to see him manipulate his latest tele-visors, which are now so refined that they can "see things at night." Using infra-red rays, on the long-wave...
Sequelae. 'Doorman McKenna was obliged at once to stand aside and let 15 frantic newsgatherers go tearing and tumbling down the corridors of the high school to transmit the twelve-word shock to an unsuspecting world...