Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wireless telephones between Britain and the United States within a year is a probability," said Godfrey C. Isaacs, managing director of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. Continuing: "As soon as we've settled the question of licenses with the British Government, we intend to erect a high power station in this country, while the Radio Corporation [of America] builds one in New York...
Even though the wireless and the mail service are popularly supposed to bring all the world within a penny's reach of everybody, conditions at present in the Philippines are hardly more clear and definite to most Americans than those in Western Europe. That much rebellious unrest exists there is certain. If the Filipino has read his appear he should have found valuable precedents i Ireland India, Spain and Germany, and even Oklahoma. Perhaps armed and noisy brawls are contagious; and having become fevered there with, the people have taken General Wood as a good broad mark at which...
...Cherbourg the Majestic, Minnedosa, Empress of Britain were obliged to heave to outside the roadstead for 24 hours. The Dover-Calais and Folkestone-Boulogne Channel services were held up for a day. The wireless installation at L'orient, Brittany, was smashed to pieces and two gargoyles of the famous Gothic courthouse at Rouen were torn off by the wind and hurled to the street...
...only light east on the wreck is that possibly there was an unusual coastal current and that wireless communication was " jammed" on account of attempts to send aid to the Pacific Mail liner Cuba, wrecked a few hours earlier on San Miguel Island, 35 miles away. Arguello Point extends out into the Pacific at the place where the wreck occurred, and it is possible that Commander E. H. Watson, in charge of the destroyer squadron, believed that this Point had been rounded...
...trip was made in 26 hours and 9 minutes-41 minutes less than the transcontinental flight record. Of course, the corollary of this attainment was that San Francisco and New York read each other's newspapers hardly more than 24 hours after publication. As the telegraph, cable and wireless have speeded up news transmission to those department stores of knowledge, the daily newspapers, so the aeroplane, it seems, will accelerate the news department stores' deliveries to their customers. Assuming that such a thing as aeroplane circulation for newspapers develops, it will open new journalistic problems. It will entirely...