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...water fed into the apparatus, which has no moving parts and which uses no heat or chemicals, is split into two streams, a fresh water stream containing almost no traces of the salts, and a brine stream half the volume of the fresh one. The brine stream may then be treated to yield magnesium, bromine, salt, and other chemicals found...
...transistor's greatest advantage is its lack of a heated filament. Most of the currents that pulse through electronic apparatus are extremely small, but when they are amplified or relayed by a conventional vacuum tube, its filament consumes a full watt. It is the same, says Dr. Ralph Bown, vice president in charge of research at Bell Laboratories, as "sending a twelve-car freight train, locomotive and all, to carry a pound of butter." A transistor gets along with a millionth of a watt, not enough in most cases to make it faintly warm. The Bell men take...
...whole story: transistors will be far more versatile than vacuum tubes. There may be transistor amplifiers in telephone receivers. Airplanes and guided missiles can carry electronic equipment that is now too heavy and fragile. Transistors will give a new impetus to development of electronic-control apparatus for automatic factories. Perhaps the most exciting possibility is in the rapidly growing field of electronic computers. Transistors can be built, theoretically, almost as small as the neurons (nerve cells) that serve as relays in the human brain, and they react several thousand times faster. A "brain" built with transistors instead of vacuum tubes...
...looking in a mirror suspended above his head, a donor can watch the small apparatus that is the object of all this research. Only about six-cubic feet in size, this transparent-walled blood fractionator will be the pilot model for future production...
...breeches. "[A] high-powered scientist said: 'Ten years ago I was happy; I used to go in the morning to my laboratory, wash my own glassware so that I knew that it was clean, do a precise, accurate, satisfying experiment . . . Now a team of girls washes my apparatus, so I am never sure that it is clean. I have to keep my assistants busy, so never have time to do an experiment myself...