That’s An Acronym? (pt. I)
Sunday
LASER = Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
Monday
TASER = Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle. This was the title of a 1911 young adult adventure novel starring Tom Swift, childhood hero of Jack Cover, the NASA researcher and inventor who completed the first taser in 1974.
Tuesday
RADAR = RAdio Detection And Ranging
Wednesday
SCUBA = Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
Thursday
ZIP Code = Zone Improvement Plan
Friday
CAPTCHA = Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (also see: Alan Turing’s test for evaluating machine intelligence).
Saturday
CARE Package® = Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe