Word: wirelessed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collateral marvel of their work was the speed with which their news reached the world. As soon as they relanded at Deception Island, Captain Wilkins sent a long news despatch from the whaler Hektoria, which is standing by him. The despatch went 7,500 miles by short wireless wave to the office of the San Francisco Examiner, one of the Hearst papers financing his expedition. The Examiner and its sister papers made adequate and proper ado about their exclusive news...
Then press and science joined in mutual courtesy. The New York Times, which is supporting Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's Antarctic expedition, wirelessed him Captain Wilkins' achievement. The message went 10,000 miles to the Ross sea where Commander Byrd, last week, was ice-locked on his City of New York. He rewired the Times an invitation to Captain Wilkins: "Hearty congratulations on your splendid flight. Don't forget you will find a warm welcome if you fly to our base." This message the Times forwarded by land telegraph to the Examiner in San Francisco...
...Kolster Radio Corp., Federal-Brandes Inc. (wireless communication equipment). International Telephone & Telegraph Co. recently bought control of Federal Telegraph. Hence it profits from Dr. Kolster's devices and knowledge...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology and General Electric's research staff. In the machine is a glass prism which breaks up the light reflected from any colored object into its spectroscopic lines. A chart of those lines is photographed and the picture may be sent by wire or wireless anywhere. Useful can this device be for recording the exact tints of textiles, oils, soap, cheese, lard, flour, butter, chocolate, glass, automobiles, tile, brick, roofing material, carpets, rope, hardware, paper, leather, cement, linoleum, cosmetics...
Saint Joan of Arc was declared last week Saint of Wireless by French amateurs and French navy wireless operators...