Word: watt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distance of two feet, it reduces to one-quarter the loudness of deep-toned noise. The effect is like shutting a door against the noise. Closer to the microphone, the silencing effect is much stronger. Olson believes that a sound killer could be built that would use only one watt of current. It would be small enough to hang over the head of a sleeper to protect him from sleep-destroying noises. Another use: making conversation easy in an airplane. The deep roar of the engines would be reduced, while the higher tones of the human voice would...
...battery's strength (one millionth of a watt) is hardly one fly-power, and ninety-nine percent of the energy from the Strontium 90 is still wasted. But the battery is strong enough to work a transistor. RCA believes that its strength can be increased enough to make the battery useful. The Strontium 90 is durable; it loses only half of its power in 20 years...
...Tube. General Electric Co. announced a new 25,000-watt tube for television transmitters. Adding two of the tubes to a low-power transmitter, says G.E., can increase the area of best reception for a TV station from 20 miles to about 35 miles...
Four 1,500-watt lights have been placed on poles around the ice. That isn't all that's necessary, however. What seems to be traditional New England weather has converted the Soldiers Field rink into a swimming pool. As a result the pipes have been turned off for the duration of the Indian summer...
Broadcasts from the world's mightiest radio transmitter will start from the Cascade Mountains northeast of Seattle this week by the U.S. Navy. RCA built the $14 million, 1,200,000-watt transmitter that can cut through signal-scrambling magnetic storms, reach any U.S. surface ship on earth...