Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbia's innovation focuses on the basic problem of all radar: how to amplify the returning echo of the electromagnetic wave after it bounces off the target, without simultaneously amplifying the random electrical interference that is also picked up by the receiver. Heretofore, the usual method of improving reception has been the brute-force approach of multiplying the power of the signal. But this multiplication requires costly and cumbersome equipment, is impractical for such isolated sites as the arctic...
...Columbia scientists, working on an Air Force contract, dodged around this difficulty by altering the quality of the signal itself. Details of the alteration are still secret. But in effect the scientists added an ingredient to the signal that can be readily identified against background interference picked up by their receiver. "It's a lock and key system," explains Dr. John H. Bose of Columbia's Electronics Research Laboratories. "We know what's locked up in the signal, and our receiver...
...identify the returning message, Columbia scientists can "hold" the signal for a relatively long time ("the major fraction of a second"). "We can keep the signal 'standing still' long enough to identify it against background interference," explains one scientist...
Revolutionizing radar may just be the start for ORDIR. The device's distinctive signal can be applied to many communication systems, will be especially helpful in weak signal situations. One possible use in the future: flashing a signal to earth from a satellite. Concludes Columbia's Dean Dunning: "The system seems to alter the whole concept of how we're going to communicate over long distances and in outer space...
Pickup Alley (Columbia) is a corpse-strewn trail blazed by Trevor Howard, a masterful international dope smuggler, for the guidance of Victor Mature, a dopey sleuth inexplicably praised by his Narcotics Division chief as "the best man we've got." To make himself even easier to follow, Howard drags along with him a red herring called Anita Ekberg. And he goes on a real Crook's Tour-from Manhattan to a kaleidoscopic blur of bars, boudoirs and bawdy hotels in London, Rome, Naples and Athens-all genuine-location stuff, reeled off at such a frenzied pace that...