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...unmanned "sounding balloon" has risen to 140,000 feet (26½-miles), breaking the altitude record for any man-made object except rockets. So the U.S. Army Signal Corps announced last week. The balloon, released over Belmar, N.J. carried 2½ pounds of instruments which radioed data on atmospheric pressure, temperature, etc. The maximum altitude was deduced from the pressure signals; the balloon disappeared behind clouds at about 40,000 feet, was not seen again...
Until Jan. 10, 1946, scientists had been experimentally limited to the earth and to a thin shell of air around it. Last week, the U.S. Army Signal Corps announced a scientific milestone: on Jan. 10 (and several times since), its radar at Belmar, N.J. had sent a message to the moon and got an answering echo. Man had finally reached beyond his own planet...
...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 every five seconds...
Einstein & Venus. Although many scientists pointed out that the Belmar technique was too crude at present to drag much new information down from space, they speculated happily on what it might accomplish in the future...
...troops in Northern Ireland pored fondly over thousands of pictures of girls back home, studied and studied, finally chose as "Sweetheart of the A.E.F," Janet Barry, 18-year-old typist of Belmar, N.J., because...