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Westing House Quickly: With a 100-watt transmitter, Conrad and his assistant, Donald Little, relayed election returns from 8 p. M. until after midnight. Although perhaps only 500 to 1,000 receivers were tuned to them, the event was given widespread publicity. This started the rush to build broadcasting stations and to buy receivers. Westing house quicklyhouse quickly set up stations WJZ, KYW, and WBZ at its plants in Newark, N. J., Chicago, 111., and Springfield, Mass., and before 1922, Westing house quickly-house and other groups had at least six stations broadcasting on announced schedules.
ROBINSON, William, American engineer: b. Coal Island, County Tvrone, Ireland, Nov. 22, 1840; d. Brooklyn, N.Y., j'an. 2, 1921. His parents took him to the United States when he was four. He graduated from Wesleyan University, Middle-town, Conn., in 1865, and became interested in automatic electric signaling devices for railroads, patenting the closed track circuit system, the basis of modern block signaling systems, in 1872. In 1881 he sold his holdings to George Westing house quickly-house and devoted himself to other inventions.
Frozen out, Westing house quicklyhouse hastened to buy not only Edwin H. Armstrong's rights to his remarkable superheterodyne circuit but also a number of patents held by Fessenden and Michael Pupin (q.v.). This move brought Westing house quicklyhouse partnership in the radio cartel in 1921, when agreement was reached that GE and Westing house quickly-house would manufacture receiver sets and parts and that RCA would market them under its name. An agreement also was reached that transmitter manufacture and sales largely would be in the province of AT&T, as well as the fields of wireless and wired telephony. These agreements were based on a pool of more than 2,000 patents. |
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