Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secret communication. We evolved the 'direction finder' for spotting the enemy's sending stations and giving our own ships their bearings. I worked out a rudimentary (compared to now) system of 'narrow-casting,' using skeleton parabolic mirrors to converge my waves in a beam, thus saving generative power and preventing messages from being diffused 'broadcast' into the enemy camp. My long-wave work also continued and in 1918 I reached Australia from Great Britain...
...well known. It was not, however, until 1924, that we fully appreciated the superiority of short waves over long ones for daylight work. It is with short waves that all my present experiments are concerned; with short waves that I have supplied the British Postoffice with its Canadian 'beam' service and propose linking the entire Empire. Here still, not to divagate upon my work in wireless telephony, my multiple message inventions, my experiments with music and many another related field, I find myself leading the world's radio engineers...
...field, Bethlehem Steel is second only to U. S. Steel. A "trade war" between these two is predicted, for U. S. Steel has apparently challenged a Bethlehem monopoly-the production of a broad-flange structural beam...
This is the Grey or Bethlehem beam, invented by Henry Grey (1849-1913). Weight for weight it is lighter and stronger than ordinary I-beams, and so is preferred by constructors, who gladly pay a bonus of $2 a ton to Bethlehem which has the patent and production rights. Incidentally they do not object when a Bethlehem salesman wants all their structural business...
...Steel is now remodeling its Homestead plant to manufacture beams of this type. Anent this, Judge Gary said, in the Iron Trade Review: "We are building a mill which will be prepared to manufacture a wide flange beam." Bethlehem President Grace countered: "Bethlehem has an exclusive license under numerous patents which have several years to run, and which cover the process for rolling the so-called broad-flanged sections as a product." It may be that the Judge, always perspicacious, is looking far years ahead. Yet the ingredients of a fight already exist...