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During 1911 and 1912 E.H. Armstrong was studying for the degree of Electrical Engineer at Columbia University; he was not an especially brilliant student, in fact in many of his courses he did rather poorly. The writer knows because Armstrone was on of his students. The characteristics of alternating current machinery in general, did not prove very enticing to the young student, not because he was lazy or indifferent but because he had a hobby - and a vision. He was experimenting at his home with wireless apparatus and trying to find out how the three electrode audion of De...

"If We Make It Through December" and in December (December 12th) we will see an election in the UK and going into it Donald Trump spoke with Nigel Farage and the conversation heaping praise on Nigel and Boris Johnson and expressing fear of Jeremy Corbyn. "I'd like to see you and Boris get together cause you would really have some numbers..... "Nigel would you please get under the bus and let Boris Johnson win the election" And Nigel has obliged pulling his Brexit Party out of Conservative Party seats that the Tories won in the last election..... What is the...

Hinton, WV (HNN) – Ever wonder what the call letters of your favorite radio or television station stand for? Of course you have! The other day, listening to WBAP on my computer, I wondered what the letters for the Fort Worth-Dallas station represent. A friend in a university town east of Dallas suggested: “We Bring a Program.” Being a careful type – and a veteran copy editor – I Googled for station call letters and found several sites that explain what the letters stand for. One of them is: Call Letter Origins - The List Sure enough, my friend was...