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...improvement calls for the old fright elevator to be replaced by a new, automatic one. A five-foot hole must be dug in the cellar to provide space for some of the apparatus involved...
...Army sergeant, was Mrs. Rosenberg's brother. He had been indicted along with the others, and had pleaded guilty. As a machinist, he said, he was assigned by the Army to Los Alamos' Manhattan Project in 1944, where he worked in the machine shop turning out apparatus from sketches drawn up by the scientists. In a voice that often dropped away to a whisper, Greenglass testified that he had no idea what he was working on until his wife came to visit him on their wedding anniversary in November 1944-eight months before the first atomic bomb exploded...
William Vittoni and Joseph Vowels were working for North American Weather Consultants of Pasadena, Calif. Their business was making rain or snow by seeding susceptible clouds with silver iodide particles. Last week they took their apparatus by auto and trailer close to the summit of a 3,700-ft. mountain near Santa Barbara, and started grinding out silver iodide to fulfill a contract with the city. "Each time we turned on the machine," said Vittoni, "we found ourselves in the center of a miniature snowstorm...
...bomber equipped to use Shoran carries a radio transmitter that sends out short pulses of ultra high frequency (above 300 megacycles) waves. Two ground stations at well-separated points behind friendly lines pick up the airplane's pulses and echo them back greatly amplified. Apparatus on the plane measures the time it took for the pulses to make round trips to each of the stations. This gives a continuous picture of the airplane's distance from the two stations-and therefore its position on the map. The system is accurate enough to show the position of the plane...
...idea was not original, but Sarnoff and Whittenberger did not know this until a few months ago. Someone then referred them to a book, printed in 1861 in England, which describes the method with crude apparatus...