Word: beame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...universal recognition as the "father of the hydrogen bomb." Now, gray and limping at 75 but booming out sharply worded opinions in a voice as powerful and confident as ever, Teller is one of the advisers who convinced Reagan that a missile-killing system based on laser-and particle-beam technology is feasible...
Scientists explore killer lasers and particle-beam weapons...
While Reagan did not specify any particular defensive plan, proposals in the past have included anti-ballistic missiles, laser equipped satellites, or high-energy particle beam weapons...
...date as Edison's first talking machine. This month two major manufacturers, Sony and Magnavox, are introducing a limited number of digital record players in audio and department stores across the U.S. The machines, which retail for $800 to $1,000, use a laser beam instead of a conventional tone arm and stylus to play compact discs, or CDs, that are only 4.7 in. in diameter and will sell for about $17. Says Dan Davis, vice president of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers: "There is a consensus that this is perhaps the most exciting of the breakthroughs...
...into a series of binary numbers that are later reassembled into pictures back on earth. In digital recording a computer takes 44,000 impressions of sound per sec. and assigns each a numerical value. The numbers are then recorded in pits embedded in the disc, read by a laser beam and changed back into sound. The "digital" LPs currently found in record stores are really hybrids, recorded digitally but pressed and played back as analog discs...