Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rules of international communications brought 400 representatives of 51 nations to Washington last week for an international radio telegraph conference. The only previous meeting of like purpose was at London in 1912, when only dots and dashes could be telegraphed without wires. Rules devised at that time still control wireless methods that have transmitted 1,000 words a minute and can transmit 2,000 a minute; that can be directed over a wave beam to specific receivers; that carry sounds and sights (wireless telephone, telephotography and, experimentally, television...
...spare moments, accounts of the Mayor's whiskey-tippling in England, his beer-drinking in Germany, his liquid luncheons in Italy, his wine-bibbing in France and his miscellaneous guzzlings in bars and on trains elsewhere. But they had not read the Mayor's most recent wireless message from on board the Ile de France: "It was to get a broader and more comprehensive view of city problems and their correction that I have traveled many miles through Europe and worked hard in my search for a rest...
...same moment that war is proclaimed giant fleets of airplanes, airships and U-boats will be informed by wireless. Merchantmen will be destroyed immediately and a nation unprepared for war will be exterminated within 48 hours. On land and sea new and pernicious gases and explosives, unknown in Germany, will be employed and annihilate the weaker nations within a moment...
...less heroic than the captains who go down with their ships are the radio and wireless operators who stand by their instruments to the last, tapping out distress signals. There is always the chance that another craft just over the horizon will pick up the little clicking cries that tell the name of the disabled ship, the latitude and longitude of its position. Often the rescuer will arrive in time to save those who have been dropped over the side of the sinking vessel in bobbing lifeboats. Among them he probably will not find the wireless operator who has held...
...stay on his course. Inventor Jenkins proposed to equip land lighthouses such as those now winking over the Alleghenies with automatic radio transmitters, each unit costing only $250 and manageable by the present lighthouse attendants. Each station would broadcast on a short wavelength measured to light up a wireless light bulb in the cockpit of a passing plane. Darkness, fog, rain, sleet or snow have virtually no effect on radio waves. But distance lessens their strength. If a pilot started straying off his course, the bulb on his dashboard, a "pilot light" indeed, would grow dim. As he steered back...