Word: beams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of transmitting on direct line-of-sight, the Bell-M.I.T. method shoots a beam into the sky like a giant searchlight. A searchlight beam passing through the air is visible many miles away although the light itself may be behind a hill. A microwave beam can be "seen" in much the same way. If it is very powerful...
...standard TV tube, the picture is formed by a slim beam of electrons scanning back and forth across the phosphor on its front face, like a garden hose washing a wall. The Willys tube works on the same general principle, but it has no large empty space. It is made of two glass plates an inch or so apart, with a vacuum between. The electron beam enters from an upper corner. The electrons move horizontally between the glass sheets and stream past metal "deflection plates...
...these plates carries the proper electrical charge, it deflects the electron beam downward. On their way down the electrons pass horizontal deflection plates and are turned sharply against the forward glass plate, which carries a picture-forming phosphor. When the voltage on both sets of deflection plates is changed simultaneously, the electron beam scans the phosphor, sweeping across it and producing a TV picture...
...even more radical flat tube under development by General Electric Co. gets rid of the vacuum, and it has no electron beam either. It consists of a sheet of "electroluminescent" phosphor that glows when it is excited by an electrical voltage. The phosphor is sandwiched between a matrix of horizontal and vertical wires. If there are 500 running in each direction there will be 250,000 points at which wires cross. These intersections can be made to glow by impressing the proper voltage on the wires. If the voltages are changed rapidly, the spot of light scans the screen, forming...
...Stanley L. Brown, 43, was lured away from the James B. Beam Distilling Co. to become president of Park & Tilford Distillers Corp. He succeeds Arthur D. Schulte, who continues as chief executive officer in his new job as board chairman, vacant since the death (in 1949) of his father, Cigar-Store-Chain Founder David A. Schulte. A native New Yorker, Brown started selling shoes at 18, studied journalism in New York University night school, tried reporting for New York's Daily Mirror, went back to selling shoes, later became general merchandise manager for Chicago's Goldblatt Brothers department...