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The weakest thing about the prospering U.S. television industry is its broadcast signals. Blocked by mountains, bothered by airplanes, bounced by hills and high buildings, they generate only ghosts on TV screens in many parts of the nation. To remedy this bothersome situation, a controversial industry has grown up across...
From Towns to Towers. This efficiency and profitability have involved CATV in a hot debate. Though it does not generate its own programs, for example, many people see it as a form of controversial pay TV, which last week got a setback in California (see SHOW BUSINESS). Networks have mixed...
After hesitating briefly at the third floor, the ever-loaded lift then continued at its normal speed to the very bottom of the shaft and stuck there. The cables had remained firm, but the extra half ton of humanity apparently caused the breaking mechanism to falter.
Housed in a compact building near Boulogne, France, a row of 10-ft.-high steel cylinders feeds high-voltage electricity into cables that cross under the English Channel to link the power networks of two nations. The same sort of tubes will soon be at work in New Zealand and...
Slim Cables. Alternating current, which changes direction some 60 times per second, is far more versatile because its voltage can be raised or lowered easily by simple, cheap transformers. Modern generating plants produce AC at comparatively low voltage, and for long-distance transmission, transformers step it up to several hundred...