Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Radio Conference was not without problems to the solution of which different members were attached. Foremost among these was the question of broadcasting stations, for the practical wave lengths to be used in broadcasting are limited and stations cannot be placed close together without interference. Already the stations are crowding one another, and the Department of Commerce has applications for 120 new stations. There are other similar problems, but this is the chief...
...board the liner Paris in mid-ocean last week, Ignace Jan Paderewski was giving a concert while the ship bounced on the stormy sea like a pea on a reverberating drumhead. Waves pounded her forefoot with a sodden, heavy impact; the wind found a flute to blow in every cranny; passengers in the saloon struggled to keep their chairs from skidding together. Paderewski played on. Suddenly three great seas in succession struck the tottering vessel; she shivered, climbed a wave, and jerked to starboard with a lurch that spilled the gathering in the salon out of their seats. Ladies...
...Significance is manifold. The spectrum of radio-carrying ether vibrations is, like the light spectrum, definitely limited in extent. Commercial broadcasting in the U. S. has utilized all the higher wave lengths, which, to avoid interference between stations, must be spaced about eight metres apart. So loaded is the air that identical wavelengths have already had to be assigned to pairs of stations, the one remaining silent during the other's program. At U. S. Secretary of Commerce Hoover's radio conference, called for early next month, wave-congestion will be the principal problem discussed...
...short end of the radio spectrum, interference between the waves is avoidable through proportionately shorter spacing. Where only 12 stations could operate in a 100-metre range of the upper scale, many times that number can be accommodated by the first 100 metres of the lower scale. This fact, together with economy of power consumption and the proven superiority of short waves in penetrating belts of static, is what has led to exploration of the short-wave field. The Hammond system promises to multiply the multiple possibilities of this field, by 8 at least, probably by a higher number...
...those who are interested only in the grand problems of the universe and this, its man infested planet, a tiny riot in a university is no more than froth on a minute wave of trouble. But to the legions who mass themselves within the halls of learning oven such a petty turmoil has its interest. Even an occasional son of Harvard, fresh returned from divisional examinations, may question the judgments of the lesser gods. But whatever powers exist in what some more caustic critics have termed Caves, need not be too alarmed by the rude murmurs heard about the streets...