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...drawback of picture size might well have a happy ending, thought the FCC. It is caused by the one "mechanical" feature of the CBS apparatus-the spinning, motor-driven color wheel which must be more than twice the size of the TV screen. The FCC saw a way out through the adoption of a tri-color picture tube which would do away with the wheel, all limitations on picture size, and make CBS as fully electronic as any other system. RCA had demonstrated such a tube late in the hearings, but the FCC reported that it was deficient in registration...
...standard Wilson cloud chamber for making atomic particles visible is a rather complicated apparatus. It contains moist air and a movable diaphragm or piston to rarefy it suddenly. This action cools the air by expansion and makes it "supersaturated" with water vapor which will condense into water droplets if given proper nuclei to condense upon. Fast-moving atomic particles provide the nuclei by ionizing (electrifying) the normally neutral atoms of the air. So particles (e.g., cosmic rays from outer space) that pass through the cloud chamber become visible as thin white trails of water droplets...
...with black velvet for better visibility. On top of the plate sits an open-ended glass cylinder anywhere from 5 to 17 inches in diameter. A second metal plate with a layer of felt cemented to its under side is placed on the cylinder. On top of the whole apparatus is a tray of water at room temperature...
...next three years, Abe Brothman fed the apparatus with blueprints and drawings of such top defense projects as high-octane gasoline manufacture, turbine-type airplane engines and chemical handling equipment. The Russians had set up such a good photographic laboratory in the offices of Arntorg, the Soviet trading agency, that Gold could have papers photographed and returned to Brothman within two hours...
...Barer is after bigger game. The curves show how much of the ultraviolet is absorbed by each region in the cell. These figures, in turn, give a strong hint of what chemicals are present in each of the cell's parts. Dr. Barer hopes that his apparatus will allow biologists to watch fragile, transparent cells as they live their normal lives and to chart the chemical reactions that take place inside them. When science can take a closer look at living cells, it will know much more about the delicate, mysterious chemical processes that are called life...