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...Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. The plane approaches the target flying as low as possible to keep below the enemy's radar. The atom bomb under its belly has been set to explode in the desired manner, at a predetermined altitude, or after actually penetrating the ground. The LABS apparatus has been cranked full of information, and the pilot has been briefed to head for a landmark just short of the target. As he approaches it, he levels and steadies the plane's flight and flicks a switch. LABS takes charge of the airplane; it pulls the plane...
...electronic equipment is prostrated by the temperature of boiling water (212° F.). As the temperature rises, rubber and plastic insulation melts, chars or burns. Glass softens and loses its insulating power. Metals oxidize or melt. Even without such drastic damage, heat causes changes of properties that keep the apparatus from doing...
Heat-resistant electronics will be most useful at first in guided missiles, where heat is generated both internally and by air friction. In many cases, they will eliminate heavy and complicated cooling apparatus. When nuclear airplanes come into the picture, the new electronics will brave heat and radiation close to the power reactors. Only the crew will have to be cooled and shielded...
Zarchin estimates that he could purify up to 80% of the sea water that enters his apparatus, claims a $10 million plant could turn out 1,000 gals, of fresh water per hour for 2? a cubic meter, less than half the present cost of water in the Negev. Zarchin's lesson may be a major political development in the thirsty Middle East. Huddled over his books last week in a stuffy Tel Aviv hotel room, Zarchin had no doubt of the outcome. "You'll see," he said quietly. "I'm no nudnik...
Around the World? The Times has been developing its facsimile since 1935, tried a similar long-distance experiment in 1945, when it used A.P. Wirephoto apparatus to transmit an edition to San Francisco for two months during the United Nations Charter conference. But the equipment at that time could not transmit photographic cuts effectively, and it took 34 minutes to send each page, limiting the Times to a four-page edition. Last week on equipment of its own subsidiary, the Times Facsimile Corporation, the Times's transmission produced an image four times as detailed. It took only two minutes...