Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place was Valentia, Ireland, European terminus of Cyrus Fields' newly laid transatlantic cable. A young telegrapher named Joseph May heard an unfamiliar hum on his code receiver. He stumbled on the cause: a shaft of sunlight, streaming through the window, fell on an electrical resister and jammed his code receiver. When May passed his hand between the light and the resister, the hum stopped. But why? May decided, rightly and brightly, that the resister (or the selenium that coated it) must have what are now called photoelectric properties; i.e., that it could convert light values into electric values...
...ring of seven combustion chambers, where it is heated by burning kerosene and kicked out at greatly increased speed. The blast of hot gases runs two turbines. The first turns the compressor, keeping the engine running. The second, spinning at 17,000-35,000 r.p.m., drives the transmission shaft that delivers the engine's power...
...hook a ball deliberately (e.g., to get past a tree): turn both hands toward the right when gripping the club. To slice, turn the hands the other way over the shaft...
...Little Co. sees a bright future for tracers in industry. They can be used to measure the infinitesimal amount of lubricant applied to textile fibers, or to estimate the ghost-thin film of metal rubbed off a shaft when it revolves in its bearings. No quantity of material is too small to carry telltale sparks of radioactivity...
Beyond the World War I Liberty Memorial, a 217-ft. shaft topped by flame-colored light, they drove through a district of small homes and gardens to Country Club Plaza, the neo-Spanish shopping center of J. C. Nichols' famed suburban development (TIME, Dec. 1). Just beyond, they turned west along Brush Creek, lined and bottomed with the concrete Tom Pendergast sold. Just across the Kansas line, the car turned up a short driveway to a large stone-and-brick house,† a full eight-iron shot from the tenth green of the Mission Hills golf course...