Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week in London he gave his blessing to a sort of merger: Western Union's English and European offices with those of R. C. A. Communications, Inc. (subsidiary of Radio Corp. of America), of Commercial Cables Co. (I. T. & T. cable subsidiary) and of Imperial & International, British Wireless and Cable Company. The merged offices, he distinctly explained, are to operate in a fashion similar to consolidated railway ticket offices; the companies remain separate...
...Kahn and Winthrop Aldrich and other personages at whom reporters usually rush when a ship enters New York Harbor, last week received skimpy attention at the arrival of the Conte di Savoia. The ship reporters rushed for Patrician Guglielmo Marconi, Nobel Laureate, Italian Senator and Marquis, inventor of commercial wireless, experimenter with ultra-shortwave radio communication. The reporters wanted to know all about Senator Marconi's latest work in "bending" short waves around the earth's curvature (TIME...
...Added he: "One definite fact about microwaves is that these waves are not susceptible in the slightest to static. I have tried them in thunderstorms where the lightning flashes were very close to the instruments, and there was no effect. This one thing may easily revolutionize the whole of wireless telegraphy and radio...
...anywhere. If dispatches ever reach other planets the achievement will depend on overcoming absorption in the earth's atmosphere, and last but not least on whether the planets are inhabited. They might be in the Stone Age and not be ready to receive our communications. We know that wireless travels far into space because we have picked up radio echoes. I never heard any of my early messages come back; the first transatlantic letter 'S' is gone forever. But I have been bothered with round-the-world echoes, especially on the nine-meter wave. We have picked...
...another hurricane sprang from Honduras last week, snaked round the Caribbean, then struck straight at Mexico's big oil port, Tampico. Rivers rose, wires were down, rails were up. For hours on end no one knew what had happened, then, from the sputtering wireless of ships that managed to ride the gale came the first reports. The German tanker Kiel flashed: '"Most immense tragedy. Impossible to imagine extent. Those parts of city not destroyed by wind now ten to fifteen feet under water." From Mexico City came word that it would be at least a week before trains...