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Word: outblasting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1942-1942
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...foot wooden cup which focuses the siren's shriek into a single noise beam, instead of throwing it to the four winds, and the reflector rotates the beam, like the beam of a lighthouse. With a small two-h.p. siren, Kirsten's reflector will outblast and outdistance any of Seattle's factory-made sirens. Kirsten believes that a 12-h.p. siren, parabolically beamed, would be heard 30 miles away; and three of them would startle Seattle as effectively as the 32 ordinary sirens which the city has ordered from Eastern manufacturers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Louder than Joshua's? | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

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