Word: arc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irving Langmuir, 51, General Electric associate director of research, Popular Science Monthly's, $10,000 prize; in general for his many researches on fundamental physical and chemical subjects, in particular for his inventions of hydrogen arc welding and the gas-filled incandescent lamp which saves the U. S., it is estimated, $1,000,000 per night on its $1,000,000,000 per year electric light bill...
...crazy idea," admitted Editor Dickinson. "Well, if Joan of Arc had not been crazy she would have died a grandmother...
...This wonderful sanctuary," cried Dr. Norwood last week, "is filled with presences and faces, and I accept them all as good chums of mine. . . . Joan of Arc, one of my favorite saints, marches across the marble, and in the marble altar, given by Maria Dehon Polk in memory of my son, I can see my son's face, as he looked when a small...
...Alexanderson arc, however, can modify as well as modulate the carrier light waves. Hence receivers could tune in on properly differentiated sending lights...
Both systems are still playthings. Yet some day, Dr. Alexanderson imagined last week, "we may see television broadcast from a powerful arc light, mounted atop a single tower high above the city. . . . These light waves can be received at relatively short distances only, perhaps ten miles; each community could then have its light broadcasting system. Light broadcasting may have the same relation to radio broadcasting as the local newspaper has to the national newspapers...