Word: beams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Light-Twisted Life. Most people are righthanded. Certain sugars are also "right-handed", in that they twist a beam of polarized light to the right. Maybe, suggested Dr. William Hobson Mills of Cambridge, the dexterity of chemicals and people have a common base. To experiment he projected beams of light through inert solutions. Some of the light was twisted to the right, some to the left. Right turns predominated slightly. This may account for the fact that all living things are essentially dissymmetrical, more right-handed than lefthanded...
...give his good friend the Pope an inviolable means of communication between the Vatican and the remodeled papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo. A system using extremely short radio waves would suffice. Such waves would be relatively cheap to produce. They may be concentrated into a straight, pencil-like beam like a spotlight. But for utility in signaling there must be no obstacle between transmitter and receiver. Hence the transmitter may not be beyond the receiver's terrestrial horizon. For the straight, light-like short waves cannot pass through the bulge of the earth or bend around...
Magnetic Declination, Azimuth. The squall struck the ship like a rock; she heeled over on her beam ends. "All hands to starboard!" bawled the officer on watch. It was too late. In 30 seconds the Niobe had capsized and sunk...
...invariably loaded down with extra equipment for all manner of experiments, notably: first launching of a glider from an airship; first hook-on of an airplane in flight; first radio reception of map facsimiles in flight; first test of an echo altimeter; first "narrowcasting" of voice on a light beam; tests of scores of navigation devices...
...forced her down into rain, fog and gusty squalls, perilously close to the water. Her altimeter failed. A broken exhaust ring spurted flame. Gasoline from a leaky gauge dripped down her neck. But still she flew low because "I'd rather drown than burn up." Pushed north by beam winds she met the shore of Northern Ireland, set her ship down on a farm field...