Word: antennaed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seconds while the rocket's fuel was still burning, its own telemetering equipment sent radio reports to earth, but when the fuel was gone and the rocket had climbed above most of the atmosphere, its main transmitter piped down. An automatic device took charge, poked a retractable antenna into the near vacuum, and told the instruments in the can to go on the air. The satellite transmitter took over and reported in code the readings of the satellite instruments, including such space esoterica as the impacts of primary cosmic rays and micrometeorites. It will take a long time...
Bloop to Blurp. With some bush jackets, high boots, a helicopter, a CBS engineer, a LIFE photographer and correspondent, four guns, two of "the very latest" single sideband 1,000-watt transmitters, a rotary antenna, a truck, a jeep, a DC-3, generators, an electric refrigerator, eleven other white men and 48 natives, Godfrey and SAC's General Curtis LeMay trekked through the jungle for four perilous weeks. By last week White Hunter Godfrey had bagged a water buffalo, an elephant (with one shot), a hippo and a leopard. "I'm completely exhausted," he confided by phone...
...public air, it will use coaxial cable strung on telephone poles to link each set with the broadcast. And instead of alienating the local movie exhibitors, it has enlisted them as partners. The idea originated with Philadelphia's Jerrold Electronics Corp., which pioneered in wiring community antenna systems for towns too remote for ordinary TV signals. The company set out to persuade movie exhibitors that it would "give them a chance to get into the home and compete with TV on its own battleground." The idea appealed to Video Independent Theaters, a chain of 150 movie houses...
...submarine, the Polaris will have a solid propellant. It may be launched directly out of a special compartment in the submarine, or it may be released and allowed to float upward before its main motor ignites. Perhaps the submarine will have raised some sort of antenna above the surface to steer the missile on its course by radio after it has risen from...
...telescope site, researchers crisscrossed the East examining and rejecting 29 different locations. They were looking for a valley surrounded by mountains which would serve as a shield against local radio noise. They also wanted a location far enough south so that the telescope's unsheltered antenna would not be exposed to wind, snow and ice. Green Bank filled the bill admirably. Radio noise in the valley was only a thousandth of the noise at the Naval Research Laboratory radio telescope in Washington. Moreover, Green Bank was distinguished by the fact that no commercial aircraft pass over or near...