Word: antenna
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Herbert, a former West Coast newspaperman, set the science-fiction world on its antenna in 1965 with the publication of Dune, an involved and resonant adventure saga of how human civilization was reborn in a desert. Set on the waterless planet of Arrakis, or Dune, the book introduced a hero whose ancestry went back to the legendary Greek House of Atreus. Paul Atreides had something for everyone. He was part Odysseus, part Jesus and part Muhammad. His followers were a desert people forced by circumstances into a mystical and practical awareness of their ecosystem...
...wars and revolutions. It took nearly 1½ hours for the spacecraft's first data about the moment of closest approach to reach earth. But at planetariums from Washington, B.C., to Portland, Ore., "near encounter" shows attracted overflow crowds. In Edinburg, Texas, students erected their own satellite antenna to hear NASA's special Saturn broadcasts...
...bowl-shaped antenna carried above Voyager 1's ten-sided body is 12 ft. in diameter. At 825 kg (1,820 lbs.), the whole machine weighs less than a Ford Escort. It moves through frictionless space effortlessly from its initial thrust, sometimes affected by the gravitational pull of planets, but able to correct its course with blasts from small thruster rockets. The most complex cluster of equipment is housed forward near its two TV cameras, and includes an infrared radiometer that measures the heat of planets and spectrometers to analyze composition of the atmosphere. The magnetometers for locating...
Early portables were AM only. FM became possible by making the circuits do double duty. For AM reception a built-in loopstick antenna is used; for FM, a telescoping antenna which recesses into the case of the portable...
...name of the portable game is features, but these bring up the cost. The first of these is the two-band unit, covering both AM and FM; it has a carrying strap and a rear mounted switch for selecting AM or FM, a telescoping antenna and a jack for an in-the-ear headphone. It's possible to pick up stereo FM stations but these portables are designed for mono only, and have just a single small speaker. The power source is a single 9-volt battery. Total weight, including the battery, is about 10 ounces...