Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mountains you come to these eyes one by one, 10 to 25 miles apart. They are searchlights and all night they sweep the sky in steady circles, their narrow shafts swinging around heaven from anchorages on hilltops. For miles ahead you watch one, catching its brief flash as the beam swings high over your road. Drawing nearer, you see a reflector revolving on a small tower of skeletal steel, a land lighthouse functioning impersonally in solitude. You pass, and see a fainter arm of light waving over the hills ahead, the next eye. They are the night beacons...
...Radio Corp. of America announced that within a month it would place a "beam" radio service insuring high speed and privacy at the disposal of U. S. businessmen desirous of communicating with London. The announcement came as the fourth in a series of transatlantic communication improvements within a year. Last summer the Western Union Co. completed laying the second of two loaded or "permalloy" cables across the Atlantic capable of carrying 2,500' code letters per minute each (TIME, July...
Last autumn the Marconi Co. opened a "beam" radio service between Canada and England (TIME, Nov. 1, 1926). Last January the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. inaugurated actual exchanges of the human voice by telephone between London and Manhattan eek there was announced a step towards a parallel development of communication westward from the U. S. President Newcomb Carlton of the Western Union declared that his company was ready to lay a transpacific cable like its two new Atlantic cables. With radio so enormously developed laymen marvelled that so shrewd a businessman as Newcomb Carlton was taking so ambitious a stride...
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. losses signify, chiefly, that Chairman Marconi has been consistently honest in utilizing the technical improvements of Inventor Marconi. By inventing new ways of wireless communication-the latest is the beam system†-he has made obsolete millions of dollars worth of equipment which was new only five or ten years ago. His company, like General Electric and Radio Corp. of America, is paying for the advancement of applied science...
...Ordinary wireless waves spray their messages ; the beam system directs them, gaining privacy and saving power. Marconi Wireless Telegraph already uses the beam system to reach other parts of the British Commonwealth of Nations; will have its U. S. hook-up working by July, its South American hook-up later in the year...