Word: watt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with woolen jackets, and a supply of canvas gloves with which to handle them, since compressed carbon dioxide freezes its container when expanding. Linked with a long towline, the rafts would float together until help could come. To call for help there was a waterproof, 10-inch square, 15-watt radio transmitter run by dry cells. If these gave out, a waterproof hand generator could be used. The antenna would go aloft tied to a hydrogen-inflated balloon. For the guidance of rescue ships, smaller orange balloons would be blown up, cast on the ocean waves every 15 minutes...
...concentrated straight on the spot to which the plane's nose pointed, straight back in the opposite direction. This gave maximum performance down the two most desirable paths, forward to the next destination, back to the last point of departure. With the beam so concentrated, the 100-watt main transmitter's effective power swelled to 250 watts. When sending to a station out of the direct line of flight, reeling in the antenna changed the beam's direction. For a long antenna wire sends short-wave signals in directions close to its own line; a short wire...
...agencies, who took up radio in the early days, believing it might provide communication between his agencies. Instead of organizing a network like fellow Automobile-Dealer Don Lee (Cadillac, LaSalle, Oldsmobile), husky, bushy-browed Broadcaster Anthony took the station ownership road to radio importance. In 1922 he founded 50-watt KFI, built it to 50,000 watts. He brought fame to his newer station, KECA, bought in 1929, with his program of symphonic recordings. A spare-time musician himself, he collaborated with Hula-Expert Johnny Noble on a popular tune, Coral Isle...
Table Talk (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS). Former National Association of Manufacturers President Robert L. Lund, Magazine Editor George H. Soule, Connecticut Grocer Alexander H. Watt, Bronx Housewife Mrs. Robert V. Russell are Professor Lyman Bryson's first microphone dinner guests to discuss business conditions over the coffee cups...
...Robert Watt, American Federation of Labor...