Word: beacon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three new instruments developed† during the eleven months' work made Lieutenant Doolittle's work possible. Those instruments: 1) Visual radio direction finder consisted of two reeds vibrating in consonance with a new short range radio beacon at Mitchel Field. When the plane is directly in the path of the beacon, the reeds vibrate uniformly. When the plane is off course, one reed fibrillates faster than the other. The closer the plane is to the beacon, the more intense the vibration. 2) Artificial horizon showed instantly at what angle the plane was flying in relation to the ground...
...Beacon--Charming Sinners (Chatterton); Whispering Winds. 9 to 10.30 o'clock...
...Beacon--Charming Sinners. Whispering Winds. 9 to 10.30 o'clock...
...whom many rated as the outstanding player of the 1928 football season. After that accident Trainer had a special mask constructed by which he could easily be recognized from the stands. His stalwart work in the succeeding games and particularly the Yale fracas therefore stood out like a beacon light and made the spectators realize what a consistently fine job he was doing in messing up enemy line attacks. He will be wearing his protector again this season, and those who were constant visitors to the Stadium last year will keep their eyes on "the man in the iron mask...
Ingenious Colonel Green has many mechanical interests. He has a radio station at his estate in South Dartmouth, Mass. He cooperates with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Goodyear Rubber Co. in aircraft and is considering building a 1,000 foot beacon for airship guidance (a taller structure than any in the world). He is said to use an adding machine to compute mah jong scores. He spends his winters in Texas, his summers in Massachusetts, has five girls as wards whom he educates. He disapproves of charity and charge accounts...