Showing posts with label radio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label radio. Show all posts
Sunday, April 6, 2008

From Another Planet

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1901 William A. Eddy Receives Mysterious Electric Signals NEW YORK, Jan 14. — William A. Eddy of Bayonne, N. Y. says that since 1892 he has ...
Saturday, July 14, 2007

Could Not See Into Future

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1919 Men of Genius Had Little Idea What Their Inventions Might Mean to the World It appears that it is not infrequently the case that great ...
Saturday, May 19, 2007

The Opera Through the Telephone

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1879 Very many persons among the opera audiences at the Academy of Music recently noticed a curious little box on the stage, immediately bes...
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Jazz By Wireless Heard 1,500 Miles

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1920 Low Power Generators Used in Experiment Expect to Talk to England by Telephone If Present Trials Are Successful England and the United ...
Monday, May 14, 2007

What It'd Be Like To Discover Intelligent Life on Mars

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1920 FROM HOMES IN THE STARS At midnight April 20, when Mars is approaching the nearest point to the earth, the wireless operators of the wo...

Marconi Listens for Signals from Mars, Doyle for Spirits

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1922 MARTIANS AND SPIRITS With Mars only about 40,000,000 miles from the earth, Marconi, the inventor of the wireless, is trying to get sign...

Babies Now Getting Lullabies by Radio, Not Mother

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Baby Florence Jackson listening in on a bedtime story. New York, 1922 NEW RADIOPHONE LULLABY SUPPLANTS OLD SONGS OF MOTHER AT TWILIGHT The r...
Sunday, May 6, 2007

Budapest Has Telephone Journal, News and Music by Phone

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1895 TELEPHONE JOURNAL BY WIRE TO EVERY SUBSCRIBER'S BEDSIDE. The Telephone Herald of Budapest — Has 6,000 Subscribers — In Operation Tw...
Sunday, April 15, 2007

First Experiment in Long Distance Radio Telephoning

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1920 Radio Telephoning The first experiment in long distance radio telephoning was made in 1914, the attempt resulting after many efforts in...

The Jollier (humor column)

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1922 A big wheat crop is predicted. Say it with flour. These June nights are even better than the famous Arabian nights. Nineteen seniors at...
Friday, April 13, 2007

Radio Stations May Cause Fires, Spooks in Nova Scotia

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1922 BLAME WIRELESS FOR SPOOKS Fire Underwriters See Stations as Explaining Scare in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia. Halifax, N. S. — The pr...
Monday, April 9, 2007

Neighbor's Dog Raids Bunny Pens

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1929 SALT LAKE, Jan. 1. -- I. J. Starbuck, 972 South Eighth West street reported to police Monday that 100 rabbits, valued at $400, had been...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Wireless Music Entertains Men on Ships at Sea

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Like all well-regulated ships, the transport "George Washington" has a phonograph. It also has wireless-telephone equipment of the...