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This Week in Radio History: 06/29 - 07/05

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
Here are a few highlights from this week in radio history. Click linked dates for more events from that particular day. • June 29 ... More » ... On this day in 1961, Radio pioneer, Dr Lee De Forest, died at age 87 ... ....

May 06, 2015 - City Council Meeting Transcript (Filebank) (City of Palo Alto, CA)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Oct 2015
(Source. City of Palo Alto, CA) b349d2b5eb17597ab7f52c.pdf. CITY OF PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL. TRANSCRIPT. Special Meeting May 6, 2015 ... Present ... Absent. ... Present ... Mr ... The district is a tight collection of commercial buildings designed by master architects Birge Clark and Pedro de Lemos in one of California's distinctive styles, Spanish Colonial Revival ... Just some of the names, Lee de Forest worked for them for a few years between 1911 and 1913 ... I....

U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for August 19

Edit PR Newswire 19 Aug 2015
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau.. ON THE AIR. Profile America — Wednesday, August 19th ... The other was Lee de Forest, a Yale Ph.D. in physics ... Over 217,000 Americans work in the thousands of radio and TV broadcasting establishments advanced by Farnsworth and de Forest ... Sources. ... ....

Error-free communication is a challenge, says expert

Edit Deccan Herald 27 May 2015
Communication is just like air, food and any other basic need for human being and there is no meaning for life without communication, NITK Surathkal Assistant Professor Dr H Prashanth Kumar said ... Triode by Lee De Forest made way for many inventions ... The integrated circuit was developed in 1959 ... ....

Is the iPhone the New Proscenium? Questions for 21st-Century Dancemakers

Edit Huffington Post 05 May 2015
New York City Ballet's Indiana Woodward and Amar Ramasar in "In Passing," a new short film commissioned by the Ashley Bouder Project, directed and choreographed by Andrea Schermoly. Photo by Jody Q. Kasch ... The same applies to large cities. Church music, lectures, etc., can be spread abroad by the Radio Telephone." - Lee De Forest company advertisement, 1907 ... Governments can be toppled with a tweet ... A case study ... The 2755-seat David H ... Kasch ... ....

AT&T; makes the call, 100 years ago

Edit CNET 25 Jan 2015
On January 25, 1915, AT&T completed the first transcontinental telephone call, ushering in the era of voice communications across the United States. by January 25, 2015 4.01 AM PST. facebook. twitter. linkedin. googleplus. more. more + email. tumblr. stumble. reddit ... digg ... Lee de Forest, developed vacuum tube amplifiers -- the key innovation which made it possible to extend the New York-Denver circuit the rest of the way to San Francisco ... 1 ... ....

AT&T; makes the first transcontinental call, 100 years ago (pictures)

Edit CNET 25 Jan 2015
AT&T makes the call Read Less. "Ahoy! Ahoy! Mr. Watson...". SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF., -- "Ahoy! Ahoy! Mr. Watson, are you there? Do you hear me?" ... Published. January 25, 2015 4.01 AM PST. Photo by. James Martin/CNET / Caption by.. From the AT&T archives ... Published ... Photo by ... Lee de Forest, developed vacuum tube amplifiers -- the key innovation which made it possible to extend the New York-Denver circuit the rest of the way to San Francisco....

This Week in Radio History: 08/24 - 08/30

Edit About.com 28 Aug 2014
Here are a few highlights from this week in radio history. • August 24. On this day in 1946, The Pacifica Foundation was incorporated in the State of California. Pacifica operates several "listener supported" radio stations across the U.S. • August 25 ... On this day in 1873 Lee De Forest was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa ... ....

Digital disruption: Kiwi opportunity

Edit Stuff 04 Mar 2014
OPINION. We are surrounded by digital disruption on a daily basis and traditional business models are under pressure like never before ... Even the man, who founded electronics and made television and broadcasting possible, Lee de Forest, did not understand consumer appetite when he famously said, "While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility". Ad Feedback ...   ... ....

Digital disruption: the Kiwi opportunity

Edit Stuff 03 Mar 2014
OPINION. We are surrounded by digital disruption on a daily basis and traditional business models are under pressure like never before ... Even the man, who founded electronics and made television and broadcasting possible, Lee de Forest, did not understand consumer appetite when he famously said, "While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility". Ad Feedback ...   ... ....
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