Word: watt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thin, blackish wafer about the size of a half dollar, enclosed in protective glass. It has two electric terminals like any other bat tery, and when it is exposed to bright sunlight it generates about half a volt. A square yard of the batteries would light a 100-watt lamp or run an electric fan. A few acres would give enough power for a fair-sized town...
...Paul Stapp (TIME. Jan. 10), the flight-surgeon rider on Holloman's terrifying rocket sled, who has probably taken more jolts than any other man. Now a new name for the new unit-the "stapp"-is well established. Colonel Stapp has joined the select company of men, e.g., Watt, Volta, Ampere,* whose names have been given to a physical unit of measurement...
...French Physicist André Marie Ampére (1775-1836) worked out many of the laws of electromagnetism; Italian Physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) is famous chiefly for inventing the "Voltaic pile," a primitive electric battery; Scottish Engineer James Watt (1736-1819) had little to do with electricity, but he designed the effective steam engine that would generate electricity when generators were invented...
Long-jump microwave beams are not likely to replace the short-jump relay systems: the power must be enormously greater (10,000 watts instead of half a watt), and the antennae must be great parabolic "dishes" 60 ft. in diameter. But long-jump has uses that are vitally important in military communication, where construction of short-range relay stations is impossible or impractical. For example the long-jump method could be used across the water gaps and wilderness stretches of arctic Canada, where it would make sense to relay to a rear headquarters the pictures picked...
...study of war to the knife in a large corporation, Patterns employed the same cast (Everett Sloane, Ed Begley, Richard Kiley), to win the approval of those critics who had missed it earlier. But at week's end there was at least one strongly dissenting voice: the Watt Street Journal. In a long, viewing-with-alarm editorial, the Journal conceded the play's dramatic power but expressed shock at its ethical standards and concluded: ". . . It is a strange thing if this is what playwrights, critics and the public generally think of as the true mood, atmosphere and moral...