Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Already more than the first step has been taken; the great have been made a little less inspiring, and humanity at large has, in some instances at least, been able to beam with the tingling glow of self-esteem and congratulate itself that after all Plato and Aristotle, Napoleon and Bismarck are governed by the same laws, the same loves and hates...
Sending Set. This consists of: 1) an arc light of brilliant and steady glow which throws a beam of light through 48 apertures arranged spirally in 2) a large disc that revolves 18 times a second. The light thus brushes speedily across an object or performer and is reflected back upon the third important element of the device-photo-electric cells. The reflected light modifies the electro-magnetic waves passing through the tubes. With light waves rapidly translated into electro-magnetic waves, there remains no problem of sending the electro-magnetic waves through the air. Radio transmission, which changes sound...
...like purpose was at London in 1912, when only dots and dashes could be telegraphed without wires. Rules devised at that time still control wireless methods that have transmitted 1,000 words a minute and can transmit 2,000 a minute; that can be directed over a wave beam to specific receivers; that carry sounds and sights (wireless telephone, telephotography and, experimentally, television...
...prisms in the 62-inch globe absorb so much of this heat that the light, passing off with an intensity of 1,385,000,000 candle power,* will not blister the skin of persons keeping more than 1,000 feet distant. Engineers predicted that on clear nights the Monticello beam, if aimed vertically, would be visible to the naked eye 600 miles away. U. S. astronomers were advised not to suppose that the in creased luminosity of their horizon heralded the arrival of a new star or comet...
...Nevertheless a reliable report got about last week that the Mackay in terests would meet the Newcomb Carlton interests (Western Union) with measures never before adopted by a U. S. cable company with radio. For perhaps five millions, estimators said, the Mackay system could and would set up a "beam" radio service similar to the Marconi Co.'s present, and the Radio Corp.'s proposed, transatlantic services. The Mackay radio system across the Pacific would be in competition with the Radio Corp.'s present service as far west as Japan, but, said rumor, it would...