This arrangement lasted until the 1930s, when the invention of short-wave wireless improved and cut communications costs.

这种安排一直持续到1930年，当时的无线短波改善和降低了通讯费用。

youdao

ALVISO, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 24, 2012) - TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO) announced today that it has settled its pending patent litigation with Verizon Communications Inc. and that the companies have entered into a mutual patent licensing arrangement.

ENGADGET: TiVo settles patent lawsuit with Verizon for at least $250 million, is 'exploring' Redbox Instant support

The chemical industry took off within a decade or so of Dmitri Mendeleev's arrangement of the chemical elements into the periodic table, just as radio communications followed James Clerk Maxwell's mathematical unification of electricity and magnetism, and antibiotics came after Pasteur and Koch.

ECONOMIST: Medicine: Shooting down cancer | The