Word: antennaed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United States. In 1945 a group of Russians had presented it to the U.S. Ambassador in Moscow. Averell Harriman, who hung it over the desk in his study. Opening it like a book, Lodge disclosed that its hinged insides harbored a tiny metallic cylinder with a slender metallic antenna. Lodge explained that it was a "clandestine listening device" used by the Russians to listen in on ambassadorial conversations...
...Sputnik I and applied them to practical purposes, the Transit system is scheduled to have four satellites in orbit by 1962. They should be able to give every spot on earth a navigational fix, accurate to the quarter mile, every 90 minutes. Any ship with a whip antenna, a low-cost computer and a receiver will profit from Transit - and that includes missile-bearing submarines, to which navigational accuracy is utterly vital for finding their targets...
...significance is great, may solve the major problem of missile shots from submarines: determining the exact distance and direction from the sub to the target. Cruising underwater far off the beaten track and out of loran's range, a nuclear submarine will be able to poke a whip antenna above the surface, take a fix on the nearest Transit satellite, and blaze away with lethal accuracy...
...planet revolving around the star Epsilon Eridani there may be a radio antenna several times as big as a baseball stadium. From it toward other planets revolving around other stars may go messages proclaiming the existence of a high civilization in the Epsilon Eridani system. The Earth may be one of the planets toward which such messages are beamed...
Tiros was now ready for business, and business soon came. At Fort Monmouth, N.J., a 60-ft. dish antenna of the Army Signal Corps picked up the satellite's radio beacon as it came over the curve of the earth. Up from the ground went a coded signal that made the satellite's innards spring into frantic activity. A shutter opened and closed. Electronic pulses flashed through tangles of hair-thin wire...