Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recording, and light, characteristics. Here is the station which maintains continuous automatic shortwave radio communication with Troy, N. Y. in an investigation of the ionosphere, the little understood deep-blankets of atomic particles which surround the earth a hundred or so miles from the ground and enable long-distance wireless communication...
Descendant of Nordic sea captains, big, blue-eyed Edward Nicholas became a wireless operator on Great Lakes steamers about the time radio got into the dictionary. He left the sea to manage a wireless station in Cleveland, became chief operator, then supervisor of the Great Lakes Division of Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., whence he was hired by RCA's David Sarnoff as his assistant. When RCA bought Victor Talking Machine Co. he was put in charge of Radiola sales. He got into televison in 1934 when RCA promoted him to manager of its license division. For running Farnsworth...
Their military headquarters, located in dozens of central villages, keep in touch with each other by telephone and wireless equipment, much of it filched from the Japanese. At their general headquarters, where a "general staff" of young officers, lent by the 8th Route (former Communist) Army, veteran Manchurian fighters and college students plan widespread attacks, the Associated Pressman discovered their well-thumbed textbook on guerrilla warfare: a translation of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by the late famed Lieut.-Colonel T. E. Lawrence of Arabia...
...Storm (Universal). Charles Bickford, Preston Foster and Nan Grey in a virile melodrama exhibiting the up-to-date agonies of ocean-going wireless operators...
...William remembers that he watched his father and maternal grandfather send Australia's first wireless signals. With equal vividness he recalls the awe with which he regarded a piece of radium brought to Australia by Frederick Soddy, famed pioneer in the study of isotopes. When William was 18 his father returned to England to assume a professorship at Leeds. William graduated from Cambridge's Trinity College, started research work at Cavendish under Electron-Discoverer Thomson. About that time the elder Bragg showed his son some reports by Germany's Max von Laue. who was finding curious bright...