Word: wirelesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past got around the globe more readily because of two things: the world-girdling British Commonwealth of Nations and the electrical communications systems that serve it and the United States. The most extensive cable service in the world (165,000 nautical miles) is provided by Cable & Wireless, Ltd., a great "combine" owned in part by the British Government, whose rates are not only lower on intra-than on extra-Imperial traffic, but in the case of Australia are made still lower by Government subsidy of messages to the U.S. and Empire countries. Difference in press rate: Sydney to New York...
Universal Air. Radio technology may very quickly alter this. Press Wireless, Inc. transmitted 600 photographs over its radiophoto circuits to Berne,Moscow and Chungking last January; OWI men in the field are now using portable radiophoto transmitters. The development of high-frequency transmission will mean a local broadcast band of nearer to 500,000 kilocycles than the present 15,000. The arrival of television and television
...18th Century with the steam engine and the power loom. "India does not want Britain's cheap cotton goods, even if Lancashire cotton operatives are willing to accept very low wages; but it will offer them high wages if they are prepared to make and send out wireless sets instead...
...year-old Joseph Choate, left a job at New York's Guaranty Trust Co. to join the Coast Guard; none of the 3070's crew had had more than a few months in the service. The 3070 was not designed for this kind of work. Over the wireless telephone, which was petering out, the 3070 called for help...
...would-be rescuers knew, the 3070 had vanished. Vice Admiral Adolphus A. Andrews of the Eastern Sea Frontier took personal charge of the hunt for her. British and Canadian planes, PBY planes, Flying Fortresses and patrol boats scoured the grey ocean. At last, on Dec. 9, a faint wireless voice was heard from the 3070. But she could not give her position, and before she could be located another hurricane swept along the New England coast...