Word: antenna
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Dials and switches are strung along on racks as in a power station. Headphone connections are scattered on tables. Three Diesel engines run 50-kilowatt generators. Upstairs are sleeping quarters with a kitchen, so operators may live through a Nebraska blizzard. Outside on poles are miles and miles of antenna wire. One great loop is suspended 60 ft. above the flat ground. New York is brought into range with a Beveridge directional antenna. Other loops are pointed at London, Porto Alegre Brazil, Moscow, Sidney...
Although he enjoys flying and his work requires much of it, Engineer Hoover Jr. is essentially a radioman. Not all his flights have ended happily. Once a trailing antenna fouled a telegraph wire, spilled his plane on its nose...
...Lines subsidiary). For a roaring moment the two craft locked, then the Pinthis sank with her crew of 18. The Fairfax was doused in flame. Human torches rushed about, dove vainly for relief into the blazing sea. Down came the lifeboats, their ropes burned away; down came the radio antenna, before an SOS was sounded. On the top deck Mrs. Neil A. Dayton, Wartime Red Cross nurse in the Army service, wife of the director of Massachusetts' Department of Mental Diseases, breathed hot fumes, fell prostrate. When revived, she tried to escape by swinging over the side...