Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Dr. Clinton Joseph Davisson and his associates at Manhattan's Bell Telephone Laboratories were performing an experiment something like a blind man's investigation of an elephant by the sense of touch. In this case the elephant was a beam of invisible electrons. When Albert Einstein found out what they were doing, he exclaimed: "We stand here before a new property of matter for which the strictly causal theories hitherto in vogue are unable to account...
...Manhattan, Davisson and his colleagues decided to find experimental proof of the de Broglie theory. If a beam of electrons could act like a beam of light, it should show a pattern of concentric rings when diffracted through a crystal. But the low-powered electrons (100 volts) which Davisson was using would not go through a crystal. He knew, however, that a beam reflected from the topmost atoms of the crystal structure would make a pattern similar to that made by a beam passing through. So he decided to explore the recoil pattern of electrons bouncing off the crystal surface...
...Lunts put this success down to a variety of good plays. The nation puts it down to the bickering, wrestling, fighting, cooing, unfailingly endearing intimacy of Lunt-Fontanne on-stage relations, their expert charm. The Guild paired them in Arms and the Man, The Goat Song, At Mrs. Beam's, Pygmalion, Juarez and Maximilian. In 1927 they did The Brothers Karamazov, The Second Man, The Doctor's Dilemma together, and in 1928 Actress Fontanne opened Strange Interlude on Broadway and Actor Lunt played Marco Millions and Volpone. Since then they have not been separated. They played Caprice...
...truth is that the instrument hasn't a broad enough beam for its height. Since the drumheads are approximately six feet in diameter, the surface area of each is about 28 1-4 square feet, if you remember your plane geometry. When the calfskin is hit a good wallop, this makes quite a radius of vibration; unfortunately the sides are so close together that most of it is dissipated inside the drum, producing a low tone that doesn't carry very far. But the tone is there nevertheless, and the claim that the real boom is produced by a smaller...
...most astounding inventions in recent years has been the development and application of the photo-electric cell. We turn into our drive-way, approach the garage, cross an invisible beam of light, and the garage doors open before us. We stoop over a drinking fountain, and a invisible hand turns on the water...