Word: automaticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Black Boxes. Nor are U.S. businessmen content to stop there. Just as today's military radar sets, bombing systems, and automatic pilots are so fantastically complex that they must be removed and sent back to the factory for maintenance, so tomorrow's new radar ranges, electronic dishwashers...
Automatic Observatory. The astronomer in charge of the balloon-borne observatory, Dr. Martin Schwarzschild of Princeton University, did not go aloft with his telescope. To keep him alive and functioning at extreme altitude would have been too difficult. And besides, as he explained, even the most careful motions of a...
As soon as the balloon took off, it was out of human hands. When it reached 80,000 ft., automatic controls would ready the telescope and point it at the sun. They would take about 8,000 pictures (f/200, 1/1000 sec. exposure). Then, their duty done, they would separate the...
The balloon climbed above 95% of the atmosphere, and left nearly all of its turbulence far below. Even though the automatic observatory was not so elaborate as a ground observatory, it took much better pictures. When they have been carefully studied, they will give scientists new information about the seething...
"I Won't Resign." One of the first orders directed General Phao, who had been forced to resign as police chief the week before, to surrender himself. Phao heard the order at home, went first to a nearby Chinese bar for two quick bracers, then to Sarit's...