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...Wiggle. Soon after V-J day, the Signal Corps put Lieut. Colonel John H. DeWitt, a former radio "ham," in charge of a project called "Diana" (goddess of the moon, the wood, childbirth). No radically new apparatus was used, only a modified version of the standard "SCR-271" radar set, operating on its regular, fairly high frequency of 112 megacycles. The key play was in not sending out thousands of "pulses" of radio energy per second, which would not have allowed enough time in between for the moon echo to return; instead, Belmar sent out only one half-second pulse...
...pick up the feeble echo, the receiving apparatus had to be extra sensitive. Although the transmitter shot out 4,000 watts of power, echoing back from the moon came only 9/10,000,000,000,000,000 of a watt-that was strong enough to be received clearly. On the visual "scope" the echo showed as a wiggle in a luminous blue line, and could be heard as a brief hum. It came at the right time for a 450,000-mile round trip-about 2.4 seconds after the outgoing pulse...
Some additions to the schedule have been made, although it remains generally the same as before the holidays. An apparatus and tumbling class will meet daily at 4:15 o'clock in the fencing room on the third floor of the Indoor Athletic Building, while wrestling, formerly held only at 4 o'clock daily, will now meet at 5 o'clock as well...
...fighting for his life. His neck had been broken in an auto accident when he was on his way to shoot pheasants. He fought with the same tenacity with which he had fought his enemies. He was mending so well that medics took off the elaborate traction apparatus and put their 60-year-old patient in a plaster cast. There was talk of flying him home. Then a respiratory infection set in. Last week-twelve days after his accident-George Patton died in his sleep...
Speech has been recorded before, but no one could actually read the wiggly groove of a phonograph record or the uneven ladder of a movie sound track. The various sounds which combine to form human speech were too jumbled up. Bell's new apparatus takes the sounds of speech apart and prints them at different levels...