Word: discs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White's doomsday trumpet is a steel wheel 3½ inches in diameter, with 80 square teeth around its edge. It spins against a thick steel disc drilled with 80 small holes arranged in a circle to match the 80 teeth. Compressed air rushes through these holes. When the wheel revolves, its teeth chop the air into pulses; each pulse becomes a sound wave...
...scientists will keep their eyes on the moon, clocking with fine exactitude the four "contacts" as its disc passes over the sun. Their observations should refine the figures about the moon's orbit, and about the solar system in general...
Hovhaness and Cage: Piano Compositions (Maro Ajemian at the piano with Alan Hovhaness assisting at piano, gong and drums; Disc, 4 sides). Hovhaness composes with ancient Armenian instruments (tar, kanoon, oud and saz) in mind, achieves a marimba-like effect on Jie piano which is near-hypnotic in its insistence on repeated notes. Maro Ajemian performs John Cage's Amores, I & IV on a Cage "prepared piano" (TIME, Feb. 22, 1943) which gives off intriguing thwacking sounds, graduated in pitch and timbre. Performance: excellent...
...sequential system uses a fast revolving disc with colored sectors. They cause the images to appear on the screen in red, green and blue, one color after another, but so fast that the eye blends them into one single, many-colored picture...
...National Irish Music Festival (Feis Ceoil) in 1902. Joyce, almost set to win it in 1904, refused to sing from sight a song he didn't know, stalked off the platform. His emotionally charged speaking voice can be heard in a recording (retailing at $11 a disc) of "Anna Livia Plurabelle" from Finnegans Wake...