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...time, the same advantage that our decimal coinage system has over the English system of pounds, shillings and pence. 2) The metric standards are used in every country in the world except the British Commonwealth and the U. S., are already universally used in science and in many industries (radio, etc.) which have grown up in recent years...
...Italian commander, Colonel Ronchetti, incurred no active resistance; the Senussites are familiar enough with European armaments to realize their hopeless impotence. Italian-censored radio despatches declared that the Senussite chieftains performed the ceremony of submission while the Italian flag was unfurled from a specially imported staff. Later, Colonel Ronchetti appointed the Sherif Pasha el Gariani custodian of the Senussites' holy places...
Carolus Cell. In Rome, a recent statement of Guglielmo Marconi that "it will soon be possible to transmit a picture or a whole page of print across the Atlantic by radio," was amplified. Marconi's prophecy, it appeared, was based on the development, in various European laboratories, of a new photo-electric cell, much more sensitive than the selenium cells hitherto used with indifferent results. The inventor of the cell was one Dr. Carolus, who had based his work on the so-called Kerr method of influencing polarized light so that high voltage produces a strong light ray, low voltage...
Televisor. In London, a concern called Television Ltd. obtained licenses to retail the "televisor," a radio device invented by John L. Baird* of Glasgow that permits "looking in" as well as listening in. Broadcasting from a televisor station in London was to begin at once. The receiver, costing £30, consists of a point of light moving swiftly over a revolving field of ground glass. The motion of the point of light is governed by current received from the transmitting station, where the image of an object or person is made to pass over a photo-electric cell at immense...
...Rhinelanders waited breathlessly for the largest church bell in Europe to toll the hour of midnight, to announce that the last Allied soldier had actually departed from the First Rhineland Occupied Zone. Slowly the great bell teetered on its pivots, causing a faint squeak to be broadcast over the radio to all Germany by the great Koenigswusterhausen Station. Then came the triumphant clang of the clapper itself, followed by the roar of the crowds. "Deutschland! Deutschland ueber Alles!" they chanted, and then joined in the old hymn "Grosser Gott, wir loben Dich." Lifting their hands they took an oath...