Word: beams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Shall not avail you when the Day-beam sports...
...Beam. As for Lyndon, well, he just could not help politicking. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. General Board met in Washington, agreed unanimously to support the Johnson-Humphrey ticket, trooped over to the White House 166 strong to tell the President about their unsurprising decision...