Word: wirelesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simple mathematical calculation in each case gives the right answer. The Liebers go on to discuss more complicated questions, such as the relation of mathematical philosophers to practical inventors. For example, practical Marconi had to get the idea that a wireless message might be sent before he could figure how to do it. He got the idea from Hertz's demonstration of the existence of electromagnetic waves. And Hertz got the idea of looking for such waves from Clerk Maxwell, who got his idea from working with the calculus. And the calculus was invented long before by Newton...
...then the masses of steel moved away. Later a Jap evacuation fleet entered the harbor unscathed. "Thus the soldiers from Kiska believe that the souls of the deified heroes of Attu had lured the enemy over the sea and made them fight each other by tampering with their wireless instruments...
...electric bell apart at the age of six. At 13 he was allowed to install a telephone system in a Luxembourg convent (he says he got a special dispensation to enter it from Pope Leo XIII). At 22, having moved to Manhattan, he built one of the first amateur wireless transmitters with which he could ring a bell a quarter of a mile away. But then Hugo's imagination began outstripping his technical resources...
...TIME, Feb. 8 et seq.). Last week Westinghouse gave an especially striking illumination of the future of heating and lighting. In a Manhattan show for architects and designers, Westinghouse engineers displayed: > Brilliant fluorescent lamps, not attached to any wiring, carried freely around the room. The energy that lit these wireless lamps came from a high-frequency radio beam generated by a physician's ordinary diathermy set. (Westinghouse admitted that this was a stunt, said that wireless electric power might not be commercially practical for many years. But the Federal Communications Commission is already planning to reserve part...
British judges and assessors sit on the Ethiopian bench. Britons operate the railroad from Addis Ababa to Dire Dawa near the French Somaliland border. British officers control the Ethiopian police force, train Ethiopian soldiers. A British commission controls the Addis Ababa wireless. A British air commission rules the air over Ethiopia. Britain uses, rent free, an estimated $320 to $360 million worth of property left behind by the Italians. A British financial commission helped set up a new Ethiopian state bank. The United Kingdom Commercial Corp. expedites what trade there...