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Historical note on the Marconi-Stille steel tape recording machine. At the beginning of the century Professor Poulsen, one of radio's earliest pioneers, discovered that a magnetic impression could be made on a moving length of wire which remained on the wire even after it had been rolled up. He used his machine to record the Morse code only, that is magnetism 'on' and 'off'. In 1924 Dr.
"I can't find anything like that on this map," Abe Clifford said, after a while. Joe Kivelson swore. "You ought to know better than that, Abe; you know how thoroughly this coast hasn't been mapped." "How much good will it do us to know where we are, right now?" I asked. "If the radio's smashed, we can't give anybody our position."
"Well, where are we?" somebody was asking Abe Clifford. The navigator shook his head. "The radio's smashed, so's the receiver for the locator, and so's the radio navigational equipment. I can state positively, however, that we are on the north coast of Hermann Reuch's Land." Everybody laughed at that except Murell.
They saw the Sirius triumphant, and Stevens led the dancing girl back into their dwelling of steel. "Danger's all over now. Radio's gone, but we should fret a lot about that. It has done its stuff we can use the communicators. And now, sweetheart, I'm going to kiss you for the first time in seven lifetimes."
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