Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain's great engineers. He attended his first British Association meeting when he was 12, wearing kilts. His recollection covers many "surprises that are common-places today: the dynamo, electric motor, transformer, rectifier, storage battery, incandescent lamp,* phonograph, telephone, internal combustion engine, aircraft, steam turbine, . . . wireless telegraphy, thermionic valve as receiver, as amplifier, as generator of electric waves . . . for broadcasting...
Also this year the equipment includes short-wave wireless, parachutes...
...Therese Russ swung round and made for the spot under full steam, swinging out lifeboats as she went. When they reached the spot every man but the cook and the captain went over the side to help in the rescue. Wireless messages sent speedboats from Kiel and the cruisers Koeln and Koenigsberg. There was little they could do. Only 40 men of the Niobe's crew of over 100 were rescued, some of whom swam about the sea for hours. Six cadets managed to fight their way clear of the swamped classroom. The rest were carried down with...
...Mean Time on Aug. 9-10, Sept. 13-14, Oct. 11-12, and so on around the calendar of the Polar Year's afternoon twilight, night and morning, each station will waft into the air a big rubber balloon. Hanging from many a balloon will be a small wireless transmitter whose whine will indicate which way the wind blows, to men listening at wireless direction-finders...
...dark taxicabs they caused many a false accusation. At Bellevue Hospital internes with folded newspapers beat them away from alcoholics who might have mistaken them for seagulls. Thousands perished on freshly painted lamp posts. Police were called, were sympathetic but impotent. The moths had already put the police wireless out of commission...