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Western Union calls its lamp a "concentrated arc." Inside a small glass bulb filled with argon gas are two electrodes. On one is a tiny speck of zirconium oxide. When the current flows, this turns to molten zirconium metal, glows ten times as brightly for its area as the brightest tungsten filament...
...world of practical things as the first fantastic puttering around with atomic power. In 1858, when miracles began to be reported at Lourdes, psychology and medicine were little better prepared to investigate and establish the facts accurately than they were in the time of Jeanne d'Arc. If Pierrette is really comparable to Bernadette, then science has an opportunity compared to which a total eclipse of the sun is commonplace - or else religion has the prospect of another Lourdes...
...story of his, or any newsman's life-but he couldn't write it. There he was, sitting in a Superfort, with arc-welder's glasses to protect his eyes from the glare, watching the atomic bomb bore down on Nagasaki. But able, sad-faced William L. Laurence's lips were sealed. He was the Army's guest...
...more than 6-295 were fighting the air war against Japan. Allied Army, Navy and Marine air forces, flying every variety of heavy and medium bomber and fighter, helped beat up a 5,000-mile arc. From the Kurils, down through the home islands and the home waters, through east China and the East and South China Seas the planes ranged on missions of blockade, strategic attack and tactical support...
...half-inch steel plate 50 feet under water at a rate of 52 inches a minute. Developed by the Navy and the Metal and Thermit Corp., it is an under water adaptation of a device known as the "arc-oxygen electrode." Underwater, it is a vast improvement on the oxyacetylene torch, which works only down to 15 feet...