Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midnight just 9 days, 15 hrs., 5 min. and 10 sec. after clearing the No. 2 buoy in Los Angeles harbor, the Morning Star glided like a ghost ship into a searchlight beam off Diamond Head. Once more she was first to finish; she had trimmed 19 hours off her old record. Said Rheem: "I wouldn't want to try and break that one." Then, as before, he settled back to wait and see who had really...
Porpoises played off the port beam of Hurricane III on the first leg. Under the muggy mist there was no breeze, and beyond Execution Rocks the boat passed no buoys where Skipper Du Mont could check for the telltale ripples that would help him estimate the tide. Still, he had a feeling he was moving too fast; he reduced engine speed as he pulled up to the first marker. Then the breeze freshened...
Vote on the Beam...
...television is having to get out of the chair to switch stations. Last week Zenith Radio Corp. brought out a new set equipped with electric eyes, permitting the viewer to sit as far away as 20 ft. and control it with a special pistol-grip flashlight. By shooting the beam at one slot alongside the screen, he can turn the set on (and off): by aiming at a second slot, he can switch stations; by aiming at a third slot, he can turn off the sound. Cost about $75 more than conventional TV sets. But the gadget is more than...
...system uses what looks like a TV camera with a conventional lens, but instead of taking light in, the "camera" shoots light out, acting like a highly educated floodlight. The source of light behind the lens is a luminescent surface that glows brightly when struck by a hair-thin beam of electrons. The electron beam scans back and forth, covering the whole surface in a small fraction of a second. The spot of light that it creates is projected on the scene by the lens, scanning it like the beam of a small searchlight. There are no moving parts except...