Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Faculty re-appointments have also been made as follows for one year from September 1, 1936: Victor de Gerard, instructor in Russian; and Phillip A. Shelley, Charles F. Barnason, Albert F. Buffington, James M. Hawkes '26, Martin A. Henry, Ashbury H. Herrick, and Israel S. Stam '28, instructors in German...
...Jenkins Television Co. was actually selling receiving sets for $119. Now Dr. C. Francis Jenkins is dead, and his company is defunct. The Jenkins sets were made for programs televised by mechanical scanners - rapidly revolving disks with holes or mirrors to juggle the scanning beam. The Farnsworth and RCA-Victor electronic scanners made junk of disk sets. Now, before jumping into television, the radio industry would like to be sure that another technical advance would not similarly scuttle the public's investment...
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...
...Germans leased the Farnsworth system for Fernseh, backed by the Nazi Government. The price was not revealed, but as part payment Farnsworth got U. S. rights to Bosch and Zeiss patents controlled by Fernseh. These include a yellow receiving screen which is supposed to be superior to RCA-Victor's green screen. Fernseh got exclusive Farnsworth rights in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria and Switzerland, where it has subsidiaries...
...Germany, in fact, was a jail within whose bars any number of deadly instruments could be forged. That would merely have made it necessary for the victor to keep close watch on the maniac's activities, as well as imports. As soon as spies reported rearmament, military occupation would immediately follow, and the manufacture prevented...