Word: apparatus
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...Navy's fondest dreams has always been the "true submarine"-an underwater vessel that never has to surface to charge its batteries, and needs no snorkel-like breathing apparatus. Last week there were some guarded indications that the true sub was out of the dream stage at last. Said Atomic Energy Commissioner Sumner Pike: "In an attempt to get useful power from atomic fission, we are engaged in the design and construction of a power plant for naval submarines. The design of two practical, though expensive, devices for submarine propulsion is practically complete, and one of them is partly...
...apparatus is designed to detect radiation from outer space in three wave lengths: 3, 10, and 30 centimeters. All these penetrate the atmosphere, which is opaque to all other waves except those in the neighborhood of visible light...
Some industries use X rays to look for flaws in their products, but the apparatus is expensive, cumbersome. This week G E announced a new X-ray detector that enables simple equipment to do many inspecting jobs...
...practice, a slender pencil of X rays is shot through the material to be examined. The rays that pass through are detected by the crystal and turned into electric current. If the current is stronger than standard, indicating a void or flaw in the material, the apparatus rings a bell or flashes a light...
...General Electric Co. named three executive vice presidents,* in a move to decentralize authority. The three: HENRV V. ERBEN, 52, formerly general manager of the apparatus division, who will have charge of heavy industrial equipment HARDAGE L. ANDREWS, 61, formerly vice president in charge of G.E.'s appliance and merchandise department, who wil supervise small industrial equipment; anc ROY W. JOHNSON, 45, formerly boss of G.E.'s affiliated manufacturing companies who will boss appliances and electronics