Conclusion: Dawn of the Electronic Age
Frederik Nebeker · 2008
1 Gelernter, pp.36 -37.Herbert Hoover had appeared on an experimental telecast in 1927, but at the time he was Secretary of Commerce (Barnouw 1990, p. 61). 2 Gelernter pp.348 -349.The lighting ceremony did not go as planned: Einstein activated the detector that was supposed to turn on the lighting on the arrival of the tenth cosmic ray, but the lighting did not turn on; a fi reworks show, though, satisfi ed the crowd.3 The quotation (in Gelernter, p. 343) is of Grover Whalen, president of the Fair Corporation.