Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the best part of the book concerns Treadup's lecture tours in the decade before World War I. In these staged, narrated productions he brings the most modern Western scientific knowledge to hundreds of thousands of influential Chinese citizens. The gyroscope, wireless telegraphy, a mode! airplane, and other exquisitely visual experiments are carefully described by Hersey, and their role in showing China the glory--and the horror--of the West stares from every page. Hersey puts into Treadup's mouth words which epitomize the hope, and the ultimate tragedy, of the Western experience in China...
...notable invention: a system for transmitting several messages simultaneously over existing electric power lines. In 1922, nearing retirement, he took his ideas and his patents to the North American Co. utilities combine, which backed him in launching Wired Radio, Inc., a kind of competitor to the booming fad for wireless radio. But not until 1934, the year of his death, did the general think up a catchy new name, combining the sound of music with the sound of the popular camera called the Kodak...
Because of its efficiency, a wireless computer could assess a variety of factors in volved in guiding missiles such as computing launch angles far more easily than current technology, scientist...
...Wireless Club has applied to the Undergraduate Council for a grant of $470 that would enable the Club to purchase a 2-meter, all-mode transceiver to make short-distance communications to the families cadets easier. A decision on the grant will be made tomorrow at the Council meeting...
Besides relaying messages to the sea, the Wireless Club has also communicated informally with other amateur radio operators across the globe. Quenell estimated that there are about 1 million such operators in the world...