Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pioneers in the old West, there seemed to be land enough for everybody. So, too, to radio pioneers there seemed to be wave lengths enough for all comers. Firstcomers, who had their pick, staked out their claims on the easy frequencies, the most readily exploitable wave lengths. Ultrashort waves (frequencies of 30,000 kilocycles and higher) were the wasteland. It was known that they were reliably effective only as far as the horizon, a paltry range for services which sought to blanket the whole earth...
...ultrashort waves do spray beyond the horizon. When they travel far, however, they become as shifty and unaccountable as ricocheting bullets, cannot be relied upon to hit any particular target. Radiomen are appalled at the cost of setting up a network of ultra-short-wave stations, piping programs from station to station by cable or ordinary short-range radio-relay links. Last week was announced the invention by RCA's Inventor Vladimir Kosma Zworykin of a system designed to eliminate such costly cables...
...ultrashort waves pass through the atmosphere beyond the horizon, they encounter a constantly varying complex of atmospheric conditions. They are bent, reflected, shifted with every change in the constantly shifting atmosphere, like spray from a hose in the hands of a drunken gardener. Such waves hit a receiving antenna beyond the horizon only sporadically and by accident. The Zworykin invention, using two receiving antennae hooked up to a single receiving station, and an automatic device to match the wave length at the transmitter and receiver to the atmospheric conditions of the moment, is designed to assure unbroken, even, ultra-high...
...They describe it as a "forward looking" invention which might be used to carry television programs to a relay station for rebroadcasting, or else for wireless telegraph communication. The equally forward-looking FCC is already nursing a headache over the prospective problem of assigning ultra-high-frequency wave lengths when each television station needs a slice of the radio spectrum six times as big as the total band of kilocycles now occupied by all U.S. broadcasting stations. This idea of an ultra-high-frequency transmitter which needs an even larger slice of the radio spectrum should make FCCommissioners scream...
...sprays were banked by the coffin. Nearby was an oil painting of the deceased. In two days 1,000 mourners filed silently past. The deceased: King, a German shepherd, one of the two first guide dogs in the city. Reason for the fuss: King had been poisoned. Such a wave of sympathy followed King's death that Cincinnatians saw hope for a $10,000 farm where guide dogs could be trained (as at The Seeing Eye, Morristown, N. J.) to lead Cincinnati's 550 blind...