Word: wirelessed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amity, Calvin Coolidge congratulated Neguest Tafari Makonnen on his coronation as King of Ethiopia, talked to King Alfonso of Spain over a new transatlantic wireless telephone, pressed a button opening the 11th Maui county fair in Hawaii, made a speech on "material and spiritual welfare" before the 49th General Triennial Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church,? in Washington...
...Blair & Co. announced that a new corporation was being formed to include all three. R. C. A. is to own considerable, perhaps controlling stock. But of course R. C. A. itself will not be included in the merger. It will continue to dominate U. S. radio manufacture and wireless communication...
...Short wireless waves, pulsating about 900,000 times a second, are practically as efficient as land telegraph wires in transmitting messages, photographs, facsimiles, written matter (checks, messages...
...Commissioners like to oversee. Already the Postal Telegraph (I. T. & T. subsidiary) and Western Union are sending telegrams and photograms over Bell Telephone wires. I. T. & T. has not abandoned its hope of buying control of R. C. A. Yet the appearance of competition seems certain to persist. Transoceanic wireless has forced the reduction of cable rates until the two services now charge practically the same prices. What land wireless rates will do to land wire rates no one before the Federal Radio Commission last week could estimate. President Simon of the Inter-City Radio Telegraph Co. stated that...
These demands put the Federal Commission in quandary. Wireless experts figure that 208 short wave wireless channels can be used for communications within the U. S. Of that number 43 are now being used by foreign countries and so are forbidden to U. S. commercializers. Not enough channels are available to satisfy even the present four petitioners...