Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...locomotive was a 50-watt radio transmitter, which got its power from the engine's headlight generator. A brass rail on the tender served as aerial. A mile back on the caboose was a wire antenna and inside a 50-watt transmitter energized by a generator which the caboose axles operated. Trainmen and engineer com- municated easily...
...Supreme Power for marvelous flights . . . exalts the airplane and consecrates it anew." He hovered over Sabana, swooped three times and circled; finally dropped a note that he could not land until police cleared the pasture. They did. The Spirit of St. Louis was trundled into a specially built barbed wire cage. Speeches. He attended the New Year's Ball, postponed from Jan. 1 in his honor. By official decree the champagne tax was removed, slicing its price to $2.50 a bottle, guaranteeing one of the gayest nights in Costa Rican chronicles...
...dinner consisting of an old, very tough, boiled boot; or that in which he amused his imaginary guests with a miniature ballet dance, furnished by two forks, each shod with a roll. But it would be very difficult not to laugh at Charles Chaplin when he finds that the wire is broken which was to have preserved his equilibrium on the high, dangerous tightrope; and when, to add to this horrible predicament, three vicious monkeys run after him and tear his clothes off. These are not, moreover, the only truly comic moments in The Circus. Scarcely any period...
Elected. John S. Keefe, 64, hitherto vice president & director, for 27 years, to be president of the American Steel & Wire Co.; to succeed the late William Pendelton Palmer...
...time the machine may be reversed in order that reproduction may be carried on. But the process of rendering the record audible does not destroy it. Once anyone has spoken into the transmitter a permanent record is set down which may be preserved literally forever. Moreover, the wire may be cut and repaired like moving picture film, with no danger to the machine over which it is revolved. For Professor Packard's work, however, the most interesting tricks which the telegraphone can accomplish are its powers of endless reproduction and at the same time, when required, lack of permanence. Thus...