Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brodeur traces the growth of microwave technology from its inception as part of a burgeoning communications revolution which began with Thomas Alva Edison's electric light bulb. Radio wave communication became a reality in 1915 with the invention of wireless telegraphy or "radio," and since then, inventors and scientists and engineers have honed their skills in radio wave technology, eventually learning to cram waves into the smallest possible frequencies technology could manage...
Harlan County contains incredible courtroom scenes, and when asked about them, Kopple laughed. "I'd have someone sit inside with a wireless mike and when there was enough commotion in the room, I'd open the door and fire away with the camera. You know, somebody shouting, 'There's no justice in Harlan County! and an uproar...
...electronic highway helpers vary in design, but most are batteryless, wireless contraptions about the size of a fuse box. They are usually mounted on sign posts at convenient intervals along the highway. To operate one, the distressed driver simply pulls down a lever-like cover, which winds up a small generator inside the device and exposes a panel with buttons labeled in both English and Spanish: SERVICE, POLICE, MEDICAL and CANCEL. When the motorist presses the appropriate button, the generator produces electricity. This energizes a solid-state FM radio transmitter, which sends a signal to a console at highway-patrol...
...literature. In fact, Black Sun is often nothing more than an inventory of Harry's peculiarities; Wolff's writing is uninformed by any consistent sense of what made Crosby what he was. It may be interesting to know that Caresse, as a debutante, invented a special kind of wireless brassiere (later patented) or that Harry enjoyed showing up at the annual Four Arts Ball in Paris sporting seven live pigeons and green body paint, but the anecdotes seem less engaging as the book meanders...
Cabinet meetings around the turn of the century, dispatches from the wireless room down the hall being hustled in and out. She would, too, like to hear the shouts of Teddy Roosevelt as he romped through corridors, get a short glimpse of Eleanor Roosevelt bustling out the front door of the White House to take a bus or walk up Connecticut Avenue like any other citizen...