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Committing the sounds of music to paper is like trying to bottle a moon beam. It is an elusive and often per- plexing art. The mechanics of inscribing notations, for one thing, is such a tedious and time-consuming task that for centuries composers and musicians have been searching for an easier and faster way of writing music. Now Brit ain's Imperial Typewriter Co. Ltd. is of fering just that - a typewriter that types music...
...once on active duty, the new sighting devices should prove to be a marked advance over the famed snooperscopes that were so useful in World War II. The trouble with the snooperscopes was that they needed their own light source -a searchlight that illuminated targets with an infra-red beam. That was invisible to the naked eye but could easily be seen by an enemy equipped with relatively simple detection devices. The snooperscope sniper often found himself a sitting duck, his, own infra-red searchlight pinpointing his position...
...mile tunnel that slices through the rolling countryside behind Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., was built for one purpose only: to house a linear accelerator with a beam of 20-billion-volt electrons that might knock stubborn secrets out of atomic nuclei. The accelerator is not yet complete, but its construction has already led to a striking discovery in the unexpected field of paleontology. A bulldozer digging a trench at the end of the tunnel veered a few feet from its guideline and uncovered a ponderous and peculiar skeleton...
...working much like the cat's-whisker crystals of early radio sets, can pick microwave energy out of the air and turn it into direct current with reasonable efficiency. Thousands of diodes, strung like glass beads on a network of wires, are needed to intercept Raytheon's beam. In the model helicopter demonstrated last week, they feed direct current at about 100 volts to a small motor taken from an electric drill. The beam of 2,450-megacycle microwaves starts out with three kilowatts of power; the diode antenna turns it into electricity with an efficiency of about...
...receivers it can be used as a superradar, radio telescope, or a radio transmitter to talk to and listen to communications satellites or spacecraft probing the planets. Haystack is so sensitive, and its tasks so enormous, that its operation could never be entrusted to mere men. The antenna beam will be pointed by a Univac 490, which will be able to call on a magnetic memory with a complete astronomical almanac for the sun, moon and eight planets. The computer transmits 250 instructions per second, has in its gigantic memory an incredible total of 28,000 different instructions...