Word: electronized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...prizes that has dangled just out of reach of the scientists is a method of amplifying light: i.e., increasing the brilliance of a dim "picture." It can be done in the innards of electron tubes, but only in ways that are unsatisfactory. The ideal is a system that will brighten an optical image-with all its lights and shadows-just as sound is strengthened by a public-address apparatus...
Biologists are sure that some influence analogous to executive orders, moves from the nucleus to the obedient cytoplasm but the nature of the influence is a mystery. Last week at a Manhattan meeting of the National Academy of Sciences Professor Arthur W. Pollister of Columbia University showed electron microscope pictures of a frog's egg cell. Magnified 24,000 diameters, the membrane of the nucleus looks solid, but poking through it are rod-shaped objects. Dr. Pollister suspects that they are chemical memos ordering the egg to develop into a tadpole rather than into a mouse or a whale...
...cyclotron which requires two buildings to house it appears as a complex body of magnets, vacuum tubes, and wires. It is used to supply radio-activity for experiments, and is powerful enough to generate a hundred million electron volts...