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"Radio" Quotes from Famous Books

... couple of hours on the homer unit, which is nothing more than a small radio transmitter. He tuned it to a frequency on the high side of the band used by the homer units in the cache. This was so no one would be likely to inadvertently tune the frequency and get curious. Tuning any ...

— Jack of No Trades • Charles Cottrell

... for boys giving full details of radio work, both in sending and receiving—telling how small and large amateur sets can be made and operated, and how some boys got a lot of fun and adventure out of what they did. Each volume from first to last is so thoroughly fascinating, so strictly up-to-date and accurate, we feel ...

— Tom Swift among the Fire Fighters - or, Battling with Flames from the Air • Victor Appleton

... men carried the radio. He sat it down carefully, then threw the aerial over a branch. The set was shielded so no radiation leaked out to give them away. It was turned on, but only a hiss of atmospheric ...

— Deathworld • Harry Harrison

... Radio broadcast stations: AM 7 (6 are inactive; the active station is in Kabul), FM 1, shortwave 1 (broadcasts in Pushtu, Dari, ...

— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... by high-velocity particles, and several other factors, the information on the radioactivity of the specimens meant nothing. There was also the likelihood that the carbon in the various polymer resins came from oil or coal, and fossil carbon is useless for radio-dating. ...

— Dead Giveaway • Gordon Randall Garrett

... because of an invention of Professor Henderson—a small instrument similar to part of the ordinary telephone. The sensitive disk was a form of radio receiver which could be attached to any aviator's helmet, and was being put into general use by pilots. The two boys always adjusted this whenever they were ...

— On a Torn-Away World • Roy Rockwood

... later, whether some rather elaborate work reported recently on the synthesis of straight-line mechanisms is more to the point, when the principal objective appears to be the moving of an indicator on a "pleasing, expanded" (i.e., squashed flat) radio dial.[49] ...

— Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt • Eugene S. Ferguson

... radio from ship to ship. Look! They are forcing us to head more to port. That gives them ...

— The Conquest of America - A Romance of Disaster and Victory • Cleveland Moffett

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