Word: wirelessed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...birds may perch on I. T. & T. land wires. Now, under all the seas, along the lead-bound cables of the I. T. & T. fishes may snip and gulp their food of slimy algae, dainty shell fish. The International Telephone & Telegraph Co. is ubiquitous by telegraph, cable, telephone, wireless, radio...
...hurried tramp through the snow, excited taps on the key at Point Armour, and William Barrett transmitted word that the flyers had landed safely, first to cross the Atlantic by airplane from east to west. Erwin Stuart Davis, an amateur wireless operator of Manchester, N. H., caught the message, and gave it to the Associated Press for broadcasting...
Briefly, a message from Spitzbergen announced that man had for the first time flown over "the roof of the world" in an airplane. Who sent the message no one knew, for the single wireless operator of this freezing colony of miners and trappers, was killed in an accident weeks ago and the new one had not yet arrived. Perhaps it was Capt. Wilkins himself, announcing success after three years of struggle, three attempted flights, five smashed planes, the death of one man during all of which turmoil Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd flew from Spitzbergen to the pole and back again...
...lighthouse keeper carried their first message by walking across the Strait ice to the telegraph station at Lourdes de Blanc Sablon. A message went to Point Armour, where one William Barrett operated the wireless station. That first message announcing the Atlantic crossing was for the North German Lloyd steamship offices in Manhattan. The line had provided money for the flight...
...hurricane delayed them the bags might be near but not at Hoboken, and sellers of them would be "short." Then the buyers could make them "pay through the nose," as Wall Street's cruel saying describes the desperate predicament of one who sells what he does not possess. Wireless orders dashed from Manhattan to the Southern Cross's captain bidding him drive his engines to their limits of safety. The ship pushed north past the Florida keys, past Cape Hatteras, into New York Harbor-before the coffee markets closed for March...