Word: waved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jazz is characteristic of America", said Leon Theremin; Russian scientist, professor in the Physico-Technical Institute of Leningrad, Russia, and inventor of the ether-wave music instrument. "Jazz is very interesting. It has had an influence on music and I believe that in the future it will have a greater influence, especially from the standpoint of new soundings...
Between the player and his instrument there are only ether-waves which are directed to the production of sound by the movement of the musician's hands in the air. Thereminvox, the ether-wave music instrument, and its influence upon musical development are of general interest internationally to the worlds of art and science...
...wants to make such land wireless service cover the continent. Through Charles Evans Hughes Jr. it demanded of the Federal Radio Commission 60 short wave wireless channels...
...last week, A. T. & T. came to the end of its misgivings, announced it would not only continue the two present long wave circuits-but would open additional short-wave circuits from transmitting stations to be built near Trenton, N. J. Calls in the first eight months of 1928 were three times the total of Jan.-Aug., 1927. The 12½-hour service has been lengthened to 14½ hours. Now connected with the trans-Atlantic circuit are Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Antwerp, Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen, Oslo, Malmo, Stockholm and eight Mexican cities. The latest extension, completed last fortnight...
When you telephone from New York to Chicago, unless the wires have been tapped, your conversation is overheard only by operators. But when you telephone Europe, your words may be caught by any enterprising amateur radiodict who chances to tune in on A. T. & T.'s wave length...