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...when it came to forming a national compact, none of the 13 colonies felt themselves provinces within the new nation. Each state joined the union as an act of consent, not of compulsion, and each, as the tide of nationhood moved westward, came to think of itself as more self-reliant than its brothers to the East...
Another two years of development will be required, Ford estimates, to produce sodium-sulphur batteries large enough to power even the smallest compact cars. Such batteries would weigh about 300 lbs., produce about 10 kw. of power, and store 15 times as much energy as lead-acid batteries. Equipped with the new batteries, two prototype electric cars that Ford is now building in England are designed to travel 150 miles at 40 m.p.h. They will weigh 1,100 lbs. and carry two adults and two children. Because electric cars require no transmission, radiator, fuel tank, carburetor, fuel pump, exhaust pipe...
...early 1960s, Way's problem was theoretically solved by the development of compact superconducting magnets, which, when cooled close to absolute zero ( - 460° F.), can produce intense magnetic fields. Such magnets, Way calculated, would take up no more than 20% of a submarine's weight while providing a magnetic field strong enough for propulsion...
...Coral Gables, Fla., a noise ordinance adopted by the city commission in June has set the allowable loudness for appliances so low that contractors are hesitant about installing any more air conditioners until the manufacturers have managed to reduce the noise. The prospect worries the makers because modern compact machines are noisier than they used to be, and the engineers are not sure what to do about it. Noisier still are the so-called heat pumps, those outside installations housing large fans to fill the house with heated air in winter, cooled air in summer. Heat pumps recently installed...
Cities & Country. The independents are booming because the onetime farmland they serve is now becoming suburbanized as homeowners and businesses both spread out from the cities. Under a 1913 compact with the U.S. Attorney General, A. T. & T. agreed to acquire no more independents and to provide connecting service with those that remained; the effect was to concentrate Bell service in cities where telephone demands were bigger. The country was largely left to the independents, who sometimes strung their wire along fences and made the party line famous. Now the independents turn out to have good growth areas and their...