Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...takeoff, the sound of roaring engines is heard, coughing a little at first with startling realism. The cabin vibrates convincingly. The monotonous beat of the guiding radio beam throbs in the pilot's headset. If the instructor chooses to start a fire in an engine, an alarm bell blasts, the pilot stops the engine, and the controls react violently. The crew must know instantly how to bring in a crippled plane, be able to find the runway with a blind-landing system. Even the squeak of tires is heard as the wheels hit the concrete on a landing...
Since electrons are negative electricity, their departure covers the glass with an invisible picture in positive electricity. A beam of electrons from the other end of the tube is swept across the picture by deflecting coils, which steer it. When the beam hits a strongly positive area, a good many of its electrons are attracted into the glass by the positive charge. When it crosses "shadows," only a few electrons stick. The rest bounce back and are gathered up by charged metal surfaces at the small end of the tube...
...result is an electric current which fluctuates rapidly to match the picture. This current is amplified and sent by a radio transmitter to the television receiver, where it controls the strength of a second electron beam in a rather similar tube...
Fame crept in on the catfooted pair yesterday, offering them an aerial post with Ward Beam's World Champion Daredevils, opening soon in Ohio...
...Aircraft. The market was still a long way from the fat days of 1946, when daily volume sometimes reached well over 3,000,000 shares. But in the glum days of the 22-month bear market it was something to make traders beam...