U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson bars Korean peace of dishonor in the UN assembly in New York City. Acheson addresses the Political Committee of the United Nations in United Nations Building. He says the UN will not accept Korean War truce terms involving dishonorable compromise.
The United Nations Security Council meeting in New York, United States. Delegates discuss the issue of invasion of South Korea by North Korea (Korean War period). Soviet representative Yakov Malik boycotts the presence of Nationalist Chinese representative and walks out of the meeting.
The United States Military Academy at West Point in New York. View of the United Stats Military Academy building. Cadets in uniform come on a field. They march with rifles in hand. Spectators watch the parade. Officers march with the American flag. Civilians seated on bleachers. A dignitary shakes hands with the officers.
People looking at an early wireless photoradiogram machine, or radio facsimile, invented by Richard Ranger. Observers include George Carrington and Alvis Ward of Western Electric (and subsequently of All Technical Services and then Altec Lansing Corporation). A man, possibly Richard Ranger sets up the machine to run. Another demonstrates the process of transmitting and receiving data through the machine. Examples of typewritten correspondence and handwritten correspondence are shown. 1936.
Men including George Carrington and Alvis Ward of Western Electric (subsequently of All Technical Services, and then Altec Lansing Corporation) demonstrate a patent model for a recording or sound transmission device. The wooden model has a stylus that passes over ridges of varying heights. 1936.
Alvis Ward of Western Electric (and later of All Technical Services, and then Altec Lansing Corporation), and two other men working in a technical office. Alvis Ward attends to a control panel, observing meter readings and making adjustments while wearing headphones. He turns switches on other machines located away from the control panel. A wireless photoradiogram machine is shown sending or receiving drawings. 1936.
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