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...disagreement on practical steps to be taken were considerably fewer than had been expected." The happy meeting consisted of the Atlantic Treaty nations' defense ministers or their representatives, collectively known as the Defense Committee. They had come to Washington to set up and set in motion the defense apparatus outlined by their colleagues, the foreign ministers, last month (TIME, Sept...
...patient suffering from bulbar polio is unable to breathe regularly. When current from the respirator is applied to the nerve, however, the natural, irregular breathing is suspended, and regular, controlled breathing is induced by the apparatus...
...Probably the Russians are using one or both of these processes, which have the advantage of working well enough even when they don't work too well. In the diffusion process, for instance, the U-235 has only to be pure enough to be "fissionable." If the Russian apparatus is inferior, their U-235 is just as explosive as if it came from the great precision plants at Oak Ridge, Tenn...
...apparatus consists of a drum into which a donor's blood is put, to serve as a priming charge. The veins returning blood to the subject's heart are closed by clamps, and the blood from these veins is pumped into the machine. Revolved 50 to 100 times a minute, the blood spreads into a thin film on the sides of the drum. It absorbs oxygen, which is pumped into the drum, and gives off carbon dioxide, which is withdrawn. Then the refreshed blood is pumped back into the body through an artery. The machine is governed...
Last June, Gibbon reported that his artificial heart had taken over the heart and lung functions of dogs for as long as 46 minutes. He will not even guess when the apparatus will be ready to try on humans. The work of the heart can be done, and done well, by the pumping system; but he is not yet satisfied with the way it does the work of the lungs (putting fresh oxygen into the blood). The lungs' myriad air cells have an absorption area of about 600 sq. ft. A machine duplicating so large an area would...