Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Guglielmo Marconi, 67, Italian-Irish inventor of wireless communication, Nobel Prizewinner (1909), Italian marquese and senator, president of the Royal Academy of Italy; of a heart attack; in Rome. His current inventions were for short-wave focused radio beams; his last public service, the Pope's earth-circling short-wave broadcasting station...
Reported Dr. Stokley by wireless: "The whole scene had a peculiar hue as if illuminated by an arc light. . . . The camera was grinding and the ocean was getting darker, but I could not notice any definite shadow on the sea. Then I heard the whistle blown by the ship's carpenter as a sign that totality had begun. Overhead appeared the brilliantly clear, greyish-black disk of the moon and around it the sun's corona. At least seven prominent streamers were apparent, as well as several smaller ones. The longest extended about twice the moon...
...bulletin of the German Railroads gives the following description of its operation: "While broadcasting does play an important function in the train telephone system, the method employed is really' a combination of ordinary and wireless telephony. There are three sending stations for the Berlin-Hamburg route, one at each end of the line, and another midway between the cities. Messages from ordinary telephones in homes, offices, or hotels, come to the nearest of these three stations by wire in the usual manner. At the stations they are taken up by a high frequency sending device and broadcast...
...London, the Conservative Times gave the story ten pages of pictures, nine of text; the Laborite Daily Herald ten pages of pictures, five of text. By wireless & cable alone, Associated Press sent 30,146 words that day, United Press 30,000 words. In Moscow, since the day followed a free day, or day of rest, only one newspaper was printed-Pravda. It carried an item of 150 words relating the Coronation, the great parade of troops and dignitaries and the presence in London of delegates from 55 countries. Suspicious Pravda concluded that they would naturally indulge in important diplomatic conversations...
...Manhattan arrived Giulio Marconi, 26, only son of Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of wireless telegraphy, to spend two years studying with Radio Corporation of America...