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(As published in the Robertson County Times - August 2009
J. Mark Lowe
In a January 1937 edition of the Robertson County Times, an article predicted that Television would be a reality by next Christmas [1938]. I suddenly realized television has been present for most post-WW2 babies and wondered how this medium has changed our perception of the world.
Here’s the article reprinted from the Times taken from The Progressive Farmer magazine.
Television by Christmas of 1937 is now the prediction. Of course many engineers around the world are working at the problems of television. If we do have television by next Christmas, it is largely due to the genius of an Idaho farm lad – Philo T. Farnsworth.
Philo Taylor Farnsworth was born in 1906 in southwestern Utah, in a log cabin built by his grandfather, a follower of the Mormon leader, Brigham Young. As a young boy, Farnsworth loved to read Popular Science magazine and science books. By the time he entered high school in Rigby, Idaho, he had already converted most of the family's household appliances to electrical power.
Farnsworth was particularly interested in molecular theory and motors, as well as then novel devices like the Bell telephone, the Edison gramophone, and, later, the Nipkow-disc television. In 1922, Farnsworth sketched out for his Chemistry teacher his idea for an "image dissector" vacuum tube that could revolutionize television.
Neither Farnsworth's teacher nor anyone else around him had ever heard of the "television," which in the 1920s meant a device that mechanically scanned an image through a spinning disc with holes cut in it, then projected a tiny, unstable reproduction of what was being scanned on a screen. Farnsworth imagined instead a vacuum tube that could reproduce images electr
West: Remember Grandpa Moses' weather reports?
By MIKE WEST
Lets see ... just how warm did it get last week? NEWS Metro Fire Department firemen, three in asbestos suits and visors, move a balky hose filled with dry chemicals as they ÒsmotherÓ a searing gasoline fire during a demonstration of new equipment at Berry Field Sept. 1, 1964. The new $10,000 fire-fighting unit is a dry-chemical rescue truck that will combat gasoline and aircraft fires. In the discotheque mood, Jo Coulter Studio model Clarise Waggonner is dressed for a big evening in a discotheque dress of black velvet by Eloise Curtis Sept. 2, 1964. The flouncing hemline and plunging neckline are distinctive characteristics of the discotheque. The body of legendary Tennessee soldier Alvin C. York is place into the hearse for the trip home after losing the final battle at 76 at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Nashville Sept. 2, 1964. The two lines of veterans salute the legendary Tennessee soldier Alvin C. York after his body was place in the hearse for the trip home after losing the final battle at 76 at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Nashville Sept. 2, 1964. Mrs. Alvin ÒMiss GracieÓ York, center, begins the last, lonely trip with the body of her childhood sweetheart, the nationÕs famed Òcivilian soldier,Ó Alvin C. York Sept. 2, 1964. She is accompanies by a daughter, Betsy Ross, left, a son, the Rev. Edward York and the Rev. Flynn G. Humphreys, Veterans Hospital chaplain. The body is been return to the Valley of the Three Forks of the Wolf where the hero will be buried. Two members of Sgt. Alvin YorkÕs family walk through the rural cemetery Sept. 2, 1964 where he will be buried with other members of his family near Pall Mall, Tenn. Across the road is the York Chapel that Sgt. York helped built and worshipped there most of his life. A long story in white has Jo C .
The high was nearly 70 degrees, which is pretty durn hot for the middle of January.
Especially when you consider Woodbury's record cold temperature was -28 degrees recorded on January 21, 1985. Big brrrrr!
No, I don't call it "global warming." What we are experiencing is a typical Tennessee Weather Yo-Yo.
Well, actually "yo-yo" is probably the wrong terminology because if a "yo-yo" is in capable hands it always goes up and down consistently.
The only thing consistent about Tennessee weather is ... well, actually it isn't consistent at all. It's more of a bing-bang, wham-slam sort of thing.
The late Boyce Hawkins, who was a weatherman for years on WSM Channel 4 in Nashville, always gave what he called "the Mexican weather report" of chili today, hot tamale. WSM was Nashville's first TV station, signing on the air in September 1950.
I'm not sure if Boyce was a meteorologist, but he always had a twinkle in his eye. Maybe that was due to his stint as a clown called "Grandpa Moses" who hosted a cartoon show on Channel 4? Dunno, but he did have a grasp of typical Middle Tennessee weather trends back in the day.
The late Bill Hall was another favorite. Bill got his start, basically, on the old Ralph Emery Show which was an early morning staple on Channel 4 for years.
Bill was a down-home Tennessean known for his gardening. His ready grin and his sense of humor helped anchor a prime spot in Nashville TV history in the days before early morning news
Sure, there were other weathermen on other Nashville channels like Bob Lobertini on Channel 5. He was a favorite more for his stint as Captain Bob on the Bobo the Clown Show. I got to meet him in person as a young Cub Scout guest at WLAC's TV studios in downtown Nashville. That was a great day!
We even got to eat at the nearby Krystal burger place next door to Harold Shyer Jewelers. "If you don't know d Nashville Then: September 1964