Word: antennaed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ranger was preparing itself for its long voyage. Its computer brain came to life and began issuing orders. It spread its purple wings so their silicon cells could make electricity out of sunlight. Its dish antenna unfolded; its tiny eyes (sensors) commanded tiny gas jets to turn the spacecraft so that they could bear on the sun and the earth. Its radios chattered furiously, sending reports that all was going well...
...turned over administration of their financial interests to two trustees when Lyndon became President, can resume control when they leave the White House. Their prospects are bright. Texas Broadcasting holds an option to buy, for less than $1,000,000, a 50% interest in Capital Cable Co., a community-antenna television system that brings programs from San Antonio stations to Austin, carries them into homes by wire. Capital Cable is faced with competition from TV Cable Co., which does the same thing, but more cheaply, by using microwaves to relay the signals from San Antonio...
...bugging is done with simple apparatus, since the tiny transmitters usually have to be abandoned on the job. The smallest bug in common use is about one inch square, and it must be clipped to a metal object or trail a few feet of wire to serve as an antenna. Its range may be a few hundred feet. In such areas as residential Beverly Hills, where rooms are hard to rent and cars cannot be parked on the streets at night, the electronic sleuth buries a brick-size repeater in the victim's yard, threading its antenna wire into...
Looking like a strange translucent bubble, the nylon dome is kept aloft by a pair of 1½-h.p. fans, is big enough (120 ft. long, 33 ft. high) for all but the most enthusiastic lob shots. Adapted from a design for use in housing radar-antenna installations, the tent was built by Birdair Structures Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y., can be rigged and inflated in several hours, packs away when not in use into a space just about the size of a pingpong table...
...miles of earth. Instead of fading almost instantly like an ordinary TV picture, the shot lasts for 200 seconds while a scanning device "reads" it slowly, then transmits it promptly by radio. When the new Tiros comes over the horizon, a ground station operator tracks it with a spiral antenna. Down from the satellite comes a picture of the cloud pattern it has just passed over...