Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waves start from the roof of a Telephone Co. building in Manhattan. A tricky metallic "lens" concentrates them into a narrow beam, sharper than the shaft of a searchlight, which points at the first relay station atop Jackie Jones Mountain, 35 miles away. A receiving lens gathers in the waves; an amplifier hops them up; a second transmitter beams them to the next hilltop relay. They make eight jumps to reach Boston...
...some distance offshore, Dr. Sasaki places a roughly V-shaped net. Inside the net, under water, he hangs a sealed-beam headlight bulb fed with current from a storage battery, the beam pointing out of the net. He hangs other bulbs, giving diffused light, in a long line toward the shore...
...party to stop, move to the next light. After a while Dr. Sasaki douses that light too. The fish move on, in a growing throng, like tipplers shunted from bar to bar by a series of closing hours. At last the only remaining light is the fatally attractive beam that beckons from inside the net. The fish swim in and Dr. Sasaki hauls up his net. In the cold light of dawn, the light-minded fish are headed for broiling (yaki zakana...
When the great new "synchrocyclotron" at the University of California was first turned on last fall, a powerful beam of unidentified radiation shot from its circular chamber. It slammed through a foot of lead, losing only half its strength. The physicists found that the beam was made up of high energy neutrons (nuclear particles with no electric charge). The neutrons were debris left over when speeding deuterons (nuclei of heavy hydrogen) hit a target inside the cyclotron...
...while the California scientists played like small boys with their dangerous new toy. The neutron beam smashed almost any atom. It cooked up any number of radioactive isotopes. But there was more than fun & games afoot. The monstrous cyclotron was on the trail of something important...