Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a Congressional committee turned down his vote-recorder because Congressmen preferred the roll-call, he vowed: "I will never invent anything that isn't wanted again." Thus when he came accidentally across wireless waves, he took out a patent but, seeing no use at the time for this "etheric force," forgot it until he sold his right to Marconi in 1903. A need was his cue to start working; as when his friend. Rubberman Harvey Firestone sent to Liberia for materials. Forthwith Edison started his last experiments: U. S. rubber production from golden...
...large room containing the exhibit of mementos of the Expedition. A glass-enclosed model of Little America, which occupies the center of the room, was constructed by the Museum of Natural History in New York, and is a model faithful in every detail. There are in miniature the wireless towers, the huts, and the paths across the ice over which the loads of supplies and equipment were carried. The lighting within the glass case is so controlled as to produce an exact representation of the polar day, growing gradually in brilliance, then fading away into Antarctic night, when the beacon...
...there would be no evictions, no forced tax collection. Because without his attendance there seemed little chance of the conference accomplishing its aims, from several quarters gentle pressure began to be directed toward St. Gandhi. The S. S. Mooltan, bearing the Indian delegates, drew nearer to London. From its wireless room came stronger and stronger appeals to the Mahatma to drop his immediate grievance, represent his 270,000,000 Hindus at the Round Table. During the feverish last hours of the British Government which fell fortnight ago. William Wedgwood Benn, Secretary of State for India, insisted that Viceroy Willingdon meet...
...Cunarder turned south from her North Atlantic lane; the Japanese freighter Toledo Maru came heavily about to go to the rescue; just over the horizon a Cuban sugar tramp crawled patiently on, having no wireless...
...Pedro's wireless room joked at each other with wistful gallantry. Morris offered the first operator a ham sandwich, salvaged from the flooded kitchens. "Do take some more caviar, count. It will only be thrown out. . . . All together now; American Marconi Company, I love...