Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nominee Sinclair wrapped his long radical arms around President Roosevelt, emerged to beam at reporters: "I talked with one of the kindest and most genial and frank and open-minded and capable men I ever met. . . . We folks out in California speculate as to what he is doing and how much he knows about it. I am very happy to tell the people of California that he knows...
...Construction of a 500-m.p.h. wind tunnel (see below) ¶ Increase of flying hours from 200 to 300 per Army pilot per year. ¶ Additional provision for training in night, instrument, radio beam and bad weather flying. ¶ A minimum of 2,320 airplanes for Army peacetime requirements. Present number: 1.500.* ¶ Development of a 1,000-h.p. liquid-cooled Diesel engine. ¶ Immediate organization of an independent "General Headquarters Air Force." composed of all tactical combat units of the Air Corps under a separate commander. ¶ An annual aircraft procurement program for Army & Navy with purchases by three methods...
Nucleus of the idea is a death ray ? a concentrated beam of sub-microscopic particles flying at velocities approaching that of light. The beam, according to Tesla, would drop an army in its tracks, bring down squadrons of airplanes 250 miles away. Inventor Tesla would discharge the ray by means of: 1) a device to nullify the impeding effect of the atmosphere on the particles; 2) a method for setting up a high potential; 3) a process for amplifying that potential to 50,000,000 volts; 4) creation of "a tremendous electrical repelling force." Two of these are complete...
...Tesla pointed out that the weapon is purely one of defense, since his beam must be generated in great immovable power plants. With generators set up on all the world's national boundaries, no country would ever again be able to attack another. Further details, said Dr. Tesla, would be unfolded before the Geneva Disarmament Conference...
...laymen, is an old familiar to scientists. After the interplanetary "spaceship," it is probably the most popular gadget in pseudo-scientific fiction. Even in Herbert George Wells's shrewdly written War of the Worlds (1898), the first act of arriving Martians is to spray spectators with a death beam. In real life death rays have been announced time & again, but never convincingly demonstrated. When one Harry Grinnell-Matthews loudly announced a death ray some years ago in England, Physicist Robert Williams Wood of Johns Hopkins said he would stand 65 ft. from the apparatus and invite Mr. Grinnell-Matthews...