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...While radio fans were tensely listening for voices overseas, the Radio Corporation of America was straining its eyes to see across the Atlantic...
After several days experimenting with a device on which 22 months of labor had been spent, the public was at last permitted to see the results. Photographs were turned into radio impulses, were shot across the sea from Carnarvon (Wales), were picked up in the U. S. and the pictures reproduced...
...Young, of Ambassador Kellogg, of the Prince of Wales, were also transmitted. The man principally responsible for the new radiograph is Captain Richard H. Ranger, who devised the means of sending uniform impulses so that static does not annul the transmission. General J. G. Harbord, President of the Radio Corporation, philosophized: "As we study the forward marches of science and their effect of steadily shrinking the world to what will ultimately become a single, big community of fellow humans, we must admit the growing necessity for the development of a universal language. Until this new process is worked...
Flying in the densest fog will soon have no terrors for the aviator. On the airway between Dayton, Ohio, and Moundsville, W. Va., the Army Air Service has installed a "radio compass," with electric oscillations flashing between the towers at either end of the airway. An aviator flying exactly on the course hears only dashes; if his plane turns to left or right of the course and a coil in his receiving equipment is at an angle to the course, he hears a warning signal, dash and dot, or dot and dash, as the case...
...board, and the huge dirigible was too light and buoyant. Several hundred sailors hanging on heavy tow lines could not haul her down, and when one of the tow lines snapped, to the discomfiture of the straining gobs, she sailed off again. Admiral Moffett was obliged to give radio orders for release of some of the precious helium, before the ship could be maneuvered into position against the platform where the President and Mrs. Coolidge were standing. "I christen thee Los Angeles," cried Mrs. Coolidge and pulled a ribbon which released a flock of pigeons. Fastened to the pigeons...