Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obtain the two views that are necessary to create a three-dimensional picture, Chatfield added an extra magnetic coil to the electron microscope. The coil deflects the microscope's electron beam as it scans a target so that the microscope actually looks at the same object from two different angles. The separate images are fed into an ordinary color-TV set, which displays one view in red and the other in green; the set's blue circuitry, ordinarily needed to give the viewer a full spectrum of colors, is disconnected. When a viewer looks at the screen while...
Earth-orbiting communications satellites literally come too high for the strapped treasuries of developing countries. A typical example, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's new Applications Technology Satellite, which was launched in May to beam educational TV programs to remote regions in the U.S. and elsewhere, cost a hefty $111 million. Now engineers of a Westinghouse subsidiary, TCOM (for Tethered Communications) Inc., have devised an inexpensive alternative: a tethered balloon, held at altitudes of two or three miles, that can perform many of a satellite's functions at a bargain-basement price...
...dying all but forgotten in Broadmoor in 1886. One of his infrequent visitors wrote that though he was still plagued by "thick-coming horrors and portentous visions," Dadd was by then "a pleasant-visaged old man with a long and flowing snow-white beard with mild blue eyes that beam benignly through spectacles when in conversation, or turn up in reverie until their pupils are nearly lost to sight...
...Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown, in which a structural engineer confronts "the problem of designing a dress which appears as if it would fall at any moment and yet actually stays up with some small factor of safety." The solution lies in understanding the principle of the cantilever beam...
...idea should not be lightly dismissed as a science-fiction daydream. O'Neill has impressive credentials, among them his conception of the colliding-beam storage ring principle, which has been used in the design of some of the world's most powerful particle accelerators. His scheme for space colonies was recently the subject of a day-long scientific meeting in Princeton, and will soon be discussed at length in the journal Physics Today. Basically, O'Neill proposes building completely self-contained space communities in the form of cylinders some 16 miles long and four miles in diameter...