Samuel A. Peeples

beam v.	1951 S. A. Peeples et al. Dictionary of Science Fiction in Travelers of Space 24 Matter transporter—In SF, an apparatus which dissembles an object, transmits it through space and re-assembles it at another point. The transported matter is usually broken into its component atoms, ‘beamed’ and reconstructed by a specially keyed receiver. Travel is thus instantaneous.