Frank Conrad, with no formal education, with no specialty, but with a roving curiosity and a knack of applying his learnings to electrical devices that has made him Westinghouse's most valued technician, two months ago set out to assemble the first machine for broadcasting cinema. Last week at the Pittsburgh laboratories of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. he made it work. Spectators, men potent in the broadcasting industry, saw and heard an airplane which had landed at Detroit last spring. They also heard the roar of its propeller and saw landing lights blink. Another Westinghouse invention, electrically sensitive to the propeller's...
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