Word: antennaed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with her!" It was hardly the type of space spectacular that President Kennedy warned would soon be touched off by Soviet scientists, but even so, Telstar II turned out to be quite a toy. On its fourth swing around the earth it came within range of the great horn antenna at Andover, which transmitted a TV test pattern. From high in space, the satellite sent the pattern back crisp and clear. As Telstar swept northeast, it came within range of Europe, and solemn pictures of two telephone company officials went up from Andover and down to stations in England...
...seeking a home for a clerk who has changed into a spotted dog. "The government is also investigating reports that several people have turned into-quaawk-have turned into . . ." and he trails off into a long rooster cackle. Very popular is a hat with a small rotating radar antenna built into its crown. "It's my four-minute early-warning hat," explains its owner. "Gives me that extra minute...
...cause to regret it. At 39, he now heads a company that has captured 70% of the world market in the esoteric field of antenna testing equipment, last year raised its sales 38% to $3,100,000 and profits to $181,000. Scientific-Atlanta recently moved into a new $700,000 plant on 25 acres of prime land in an Atlanta suburb, is now planning an addition that will double the plant's size. The company owes its remarkable success to an ill wind that blew a lot of good. Its bank account was so low that it could...
Largely supporting itself by making and hand-testing military radar antennas, struggling Scientific-Atlanta got a Signal Corps order in 1954 to develop a new plastic lens antenna. It needed a recorder to test the patterns of the more sophisticated antenna, but the cheapest recorder cost $10,000-just about the company's net worth at the time. Robinson rounded up consultants from Georgia Tech, worked day and night for five months, finally developed a homemade recorder that was more accurate and could be sold more cheaply than those on the market. The recorder converts radio signals passing through...
...with indus try; Scientific-Atlanta hoped to sell 50, instead has so far sold 752 (at $4,300 each) to such companies as General Electric, Sperry Rand and Bell Labs. Its staff has grown to 40 engineers and 260 other employees, who now make testers for almost any antenna from TV to military fire control, and its success has attracted venture capital from Rockefeller Bros., Inc., put up at Laurance Rockefeller's recommendation. "Space activity," says Robinson, "has given this field a big boost. There is no other way to communicate with a space vehicle except through an antenna...