Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years have passed since Inventor Theremin astonished people by passing his hands in front of wireless antennae and producing musical sounds. He said then that his invention offered many possibilities and his new devices last week included a dance floor so rigged underneath with Theremin rods that a dancer posturing on it can provide her own accompaniment...
...visitors paid scant attention to the dedication of the last section of Harvard's group of buildings for the study of Physics. Between the Jefferson Physical Laboratory (Professor Theodore Lyman, director) and the Cruft High Tension Electrical Laboratory (Professor George Washington Pierce, director) with its two 100-ft. wireless towers-between them was a space, which now has been enclosed by a connecting wing of workrooms...
Researches in general physics furnished the material for the work going forward in the Jefferson Laboratory in the past. Radiations which are the vehicle of "wireless" or "radio" communication--of greater wave-length than those of the visible spectrum--have been the especial interest of the members of the Harvard physics staff in the Cruft Laboratory...
...true eulogy of Washington is this mighty Nation. . . . What other great, purely human .institution, devised in the era of the stagecoach and the candle, has so marvelously grown and survived into this epoch of the steam engine, the airplane, the incandescent lamp, the wireless telephone and the battleship? . . . We should strive to identify the qualities in him that made our revolution a success and our Nation great. Those were the qualities that marked Washington out for immortality . . . Lexington . . . Concord . . . Bunker Hill . . . Valley Forge . . . Yorktown...
...expedition were a dozen men, including one American, the National Geographic Society's Dr. Maynard Owen Williams. For their use & comfort the cars carried stationery, typewriters, archives, maps, books, artists' materials, guns, ammunition, field glasses, compasses, sound picture equipment, botanical, taxidermy, archaeological, meteorological and geological supplies & equipment, wireless sets, a kitchen, an electric power plant, suitcases, shoe boxes, beds, tents, washstands, folding chairs, three-legged stools and a shower bath & water closet. For such a jaunt there must be comfort...