Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan fortnight ago to direct the Lewisohn Stadium concerts (TIME, Aug. 10), has broadcast many a radio program in England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R. Last week it became evident that he had listened to many a radio broadcast as well. Having conferred with Columbia Broadcasting System's wireless engineers and having experimented on his own in England, he had some observations and predictions to make about radio...
...Several hours later they reached Nome, put their ship down on Safety Bay, 21 mi. away, instead of in the Nome River. There they dined on reindeer meat with Territorial Senator Alfred Julian Lomen; witnessed an Eskimo "wolf dance," performed for the second time in 20 years; heard oldtime wireless operators pay tribute to Mrs. Lindbergh as "a good ham [amateur operator]. Her signals were clear and nice." Colonel Lindbergh announced casually that from the Orient -he and Mrs. Lindbergh would fly on across Asia to Europe, fly home across the Atlantic via the Azores...
...Coleridge numbered among ways of idleness reading magazines and spitting over bridges. Today he would have added going to the pictures and listening to the wireless. The British Broadcasting Com pany does magnificent work, but it is a form of idleness if we make funnels of our ears without making intellectual effort...
Nonetheless the late John Pierpont Morgan believed in the possibility of such wireless power. That was at the time when Mr. Morgan was creating U. S. Steel Corp. and International Mercantile Marine. He was not averse to world control of power and communications. (The House of Morgan is banker for American Telephone & Telegraph, International Telephone & Telegraph, Western Union, United Corp., and many another electrical utility.) Banker Morgan gave Genius Tesla great amounts of money for experiment. In Colorado in 1899, Tesla built a huge in duction coil by which he generated and, he says, sent out wireless waves the same...
Pope v. Pagan. In the Papal State experienced electricians cared last week for the wireless apparatus by means of which Pope Pius can instantly dot-dash an encyclical letter to Paris, should couriers lose their cunning...