Word: staticity
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...Lost World. The brontosaurus is usually a static creature. Propped on rods and wire, he observes the world with a stolid papier-maché curiosity from the floor of some museum. He is observed with awe and agitation by the restless seekers after cultural novelties. Now at last has the brontosaurus come to life. He is abroad in his native state, awkward, menacing and gigantically saurian. He can be viewed by the restless seekers after stimulation. In short, he is in the cinema. The film (from Conan Doyle's tale) is unimportant in narrative. An English youth would like...
...remains for some enterprising "Widow" to supply radio outfits for the vest pocket with directions for tuning in. Then diddling with the dials will replace the anxious chewing pens, and static will be the only excuse for a "flunk...
...Haverford College (Pa.), only two days earlier, amateur radio telegraphers conducted for five and a half hours through heavy static a chess match with Oxford University...
...strikes the cylinder which slowly rotates. Passing through the film it activates a photo-electric cell. The cell gives out electrical impulses in proportion to the strength of the light that filters through the film. The gradations of these electrical impulses are very delicate. If put upon the air, static would greatly interfere with them. Instead they are stored until a given amount (two-millionths of an ampere) accumulates. Then it is discharged as a sharp dot with which static does not interfere. Thus static is eliminated and the device can be worked at all hours...
...Tweed River, of Queen Mother Alexandra, of Premier Stanley Baldwin, of Owen D. 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...