Word: watt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resourcefulness, began gathering all the dry cells and radio "B" batteries he could find in stock. Battling his way home with the stuff, he found his wife and baby scared but safe. But the hurricane had blown his garage away, and with it the aerial for his 600-watt transmitter, WiBDC. In a mile-a-minute gale, he slung a new aerial, by 7 p. m. had his transmitter working on five watts of dry-cell power. He sat down by kerosene lamplight, began calling the amateur's land signal of distress, QRR. Soon W2CQD at Roselle...
...train of light emitted from a 1,000-watt lamp is "sectioned" by a formidable-looking device called a standard frequency generator (see cut), also developed at Harvard, which alternately brightens and dims the beam 19,200,000 times a second. This is like nicking at regular but very close intervals a cable which is rapidly being paid off a drum. The light beam is split. One part is conducted over a long course (185 yd.), the other over a short course (about 2 yd.). Both are reflected back to a photoelectric cell. On the beam which has been over...
...This can be understood from the analogy of electric current. The wattage, or power, is the product of volts and amperes. If the electromotive force or pressure is a million volts but the quantity of current is only one-millionth of an ampere, the power is just one watt, not enough to light a household lamp...
...paper sent by Robert J. Watt, American Workers' Delegate to the International Labor Organization, reduced the problem of an overcomplex government to a need for a change in ethics...
...time that lawyers, accountants, and bankers were required by public opinion to limit their services to that of advising clients how to comply with the purpose of legislation rather than invoking devices whereby the purpose of the law may be evaded with impunity," Watt stated...