Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when it was introduced in 1980, Washlets or similar brands of washing toilets have found their way into 1 out of 8 Japanese homes, according to TOTO. The latest model, called the Washlet Queen, includes a built-in deodorizer, a hand-held wireless remote control to activate front and back sprinklers, and a heater. For the particularly diffident, who hesitate to visit a showroom, TOTO offers a list of 28 shops and restaurants around Tokyo that have Washlets...
Founded around 1915, the wireless club takes pride in being the first in the country, says President Richard G. Listerud '87. The approximately 15 club members use radios kept in a "club shack" at the Office of Career Services to transmit messages around the globe...
...tale of two corporate friends turned foes has come full circle. It was in 1919 that Franklin Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, encouraged General Electric to help create the Radio Corp. of America to make sure that the U.S. was not left behind in the field of wireless communications. For many years GE owned the majority of RCA's stock, and the two companies worked together on the development of radios. But in 1932 Government trustbusters forced GE to spin off its RCA holdings, and the firms became fierce rivals...
Confronting the unthinkable, Smith had to move gradually from disbelief to doubt to desperation. It was 12:05 a.m. when he ordered all passengers mustered on deck, 12:15 when the first call for help was sent out on the wireless, 12:45 when the first of 20 lifeboats was lowered...
...Titanic sank a couple of years before we came along in spite of Marconi's invention of wireless a few years earlier. I entered the world just before Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated at Sarajevo, triggering the Guns of August. The Model T Ford was slowly replacing the horse and electric refrigeration and oil heat were unknown in the household. The New York Central Railroad ran from New York to Albany and the Boston & Maine from Boston to Lowell in less time than they take...