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...TIME, Nov. 24) converts about 33% of its fuel's heat into energy. Reason: most of the heat must always be transferred not to the turbine's whirling rotors as force but to the water which cools and condenses the steam for re-use in the boiler. Much of this wasted heat is conserved in a mercury-vapor turbine operating with a secondary steam turbine. The mercury vaporized at 975° F., blasts through the rotors and then, while condensing, boils the water which cools it. This creates steam for a second turbine. Some heat is still wasted...
Trouble was that the mercury 1) dissolved a lot of rust from the steel tubes it moved through, 2) did not heat uniformly, so that it flowed poorly, overheating certain boiler pipes. A corps of chemists, metallurgists, engineers finally figured out the reason. Mercury-with its well-known tendency to hug itself in little globules-was not "wetting" the steel heating tubes in intimate contact. Hence oxygen crept between the two metals and rusted the steel, and the uneven contact led to uneven heating. What was needed was a wetting agent for the mercury. Scientists found it by putting traces...
...other hand is a newly rich, successful business stung by Fly into self-appraisal. It found itself to be several things at once: a marvelous medium communicating news and home entertainment to scores of millions; a boiler room of advertising patter echoing in every cranny of the nation; (and much less continuously) a fountainhead of beautiful music, intelligent discussion, excellent reporting-all given to the people free. There was no complaint from the people. CBS and NBC indeed made plenty of money. But they pointed to the $8,000,000 a year they spent on their sustaining programs and affirmed...
...Ulen's Varsity swimmers turned the pressure on last night against a mediocre M.I.T. team and the Boiler-makers were left hanging on the ropes gasping for breath. The final score was 52 to 23 in favor of Harvard, and the beating could have been worse had not Ulen taken mercy on the Techmen towards the end of the meet...
...destroyer was swinging hard to port at the time of the hit. Ensign Lyman heard a terrible roar as the warhead bit through the Kearny's armor. The explosion killed seven men stationed in the forward boiler room on the steaming watch. Its force ripped up through the deck, wrecked the starboard wing of the bridge, knocked the forward stack back and broke the siren cord so that its shrill yowl could not be shut off. Four others disappeared, probably blown overboard...