The book transmits a sense of the sparse difficult conditions in Iceland at the time, and the unfairness of a society that discriminated against both women and the servant class.
Rather than sending programmes directly to customers' homes, Aereo captures free, over-the-air broadcasts on wee antennae and transmits them directly to digital recording devices, one per subscriber.
This transmits CD-quality audio along with extra data to provide the performer's name and song title, or weather and traffic reports.
It uses its own equipment, transmits copyrighted material to users' homes and lets them watch the shows "virtually as the programming is being broadcast".
But the VMS transmits only to officialdom, so there can be no excuse for disabling it.
That way they are unlikely to cause any form of interference, even in frayed wiring or unshielded navigation and communications gear.The picocell gathers calls from passengers and transmits them up to a communications satellite in orbit above.
In "Reason", a short story by Isaac Asimov that was published in 1941, a space station transmits energy collected from the sun to various planets using microwave beams.The advantage of intercepting sunlight in space, instead of letting it find its own way through the atmosphere, is that so much gets absorbed by the air.
Eggs of the mosquito that transmits rift-valley fever must dry out and become wet once more if they are to develop into adults, so an accurate forecast of periodic flooding is the key to predicting where the disease will break out.
Or an elderly person forgets to take her medicine, and the pill box transmits a text message to a carer or close relative.Yet after all the hype, the promises are at last being realised.
An old dream of those who seek to eliminate malaria is thus a way of selectively killing only what transmits the parasite: mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, most notably Anopheles gambiae.
The probe transmits pulses of high-frequency sound and receives signals back, using the reflections to produce images.
