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Right.  And the squaw on the hippopottamoose is equal to the sum of the 
squaws on either side . . .

And Pi are round.  Cornbread are square.

EdKing
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> Right.  Now you can see why I failed first grade descriptive geometry.

>

> It was a four-sided hexagon, not a five-sided one.

>

> Gordon Hamilton

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>> But Gordon, wouldn't it only take one more side to make a 5-sided 

>> "hexagon" (a pentagon) into a real 6-sided hexagon?

>>

>> Sam Putney

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>>> Ken's mention of Sputnik reminds me how far science has progressed since 

>>> then.  At the time that the launch of Sputnik stunned the scientific and 

>>> military community in this country I was assigned to Research and 

>>> Development Company  at Fort Monmouth, NJ, the home of the US Army 

>>> Signal Corps.  When Sputnik went up a number of us were pressed into 

>>> duty manning conventional radio direction finding equipment to track the 

>>> beep, beep, beep of Sputnik.  Whenever it came into range we manually 

>>> logged the coordinates and the corresponding times, then picked up a 

>>> telephone and verbally relayed the information to a telephone number in 

>>> Washington, DC. Hard to believe that this was the way it was done then, 

>>> but it was.

>>>

>>> Incidentally, I worked in the Signal Research and Development 

>>> Laboratories, known locally as the "Hexagon."  But, it was a five-sided 

>>> hexagon!

>>>

>>> The explanation is that two of the sides had not been built at that 

>>> time.

>>>

>>> Gordon Hamilton

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>>> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 6:54 PM

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>>>

>>>> The Today show broadcast from Roanoke on May 15-16, 1958. There was  an 

>>>> interview segment with Stuart Saunders standing next to the 

>>>> Pocahontas, and a filmed (not live) segment riding the cab of the J 

>>>> between Roanoke and Bedford. There was a two page article in the June 

>>>> 1958 N&W Magazine. pages 344-345.

>>>>

>>>> Having worked in the television business for 11 years, The first 

>>>> satellite to orbit the earth was Sputnik in October 1957, just about  7 

>>>> months prior to this broadcast. As I recall, it was capable of 

>>>> broadcasting a "beep" tone every few seconds during its orbit.

>>>>

>>>> Satellite television broadcasting did not originate until sometime in 

>>>> 1962, when Telstar was launched to become the first television 

>>>> broadcast satellite. Live broadcasting in those days was a 

>>>> considerable technical feat with a small scale broadcast truck at the 

>>>> site. Satellite or microwave broadcasting that is common today was 

>>>> unheard of in 1958.

>>>>

>>>> Ken Miller

>>>>

>>>> On Mar 31, 2007, at 1:18 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>> I do recall the Today show broadcasting from Roanoke in 1957, the 

>>>>> 75th anniversary of the City. And I recall that the "studio" was an 

>>>>> open air location atop Mill Mountain. Unfortunately I don't recall 

>>>>> the train feature.

>>>>>

>>>>>      Ray Smoot

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>>>>> Subject: Today Show

>>>>>

>>>>> Back durung the early 50's the Today Show with Dave Garroway 

>>>>> originated

>>>>> one day in Roanoke, Va.   During the course of the program an N&W J

>>>>> with a passenger train was approaching Roanoke.  This was before we

>>>>> had the satellite technology that exists today. They had a "live" 

>>>>> segment of

>>>>> broadcast with Dave Garraway in the cab of the locomotive talking with

>>>>> the engine crew, or trying to over all that noise.  I have wondered 

>>>>> to this

>>>>> day how  NBC  was able to pull that off. Do any of you recall this 

>>>>> program

>>>>> from the past, or do you have any idea  of how they were able to 

>>>>> broadcast

>>>>> "live" from a moving locomotive cab?   The only angle I can think  of 

>>>>> was

>>>>> to have a small plane above the train with a satellite dish feeding 

>>>>> the signal

>>>>> to a dish mounted on a building in Roanoke. What's your version?

>>>>> Bill Sellers.

>>>>>

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