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...outsiders, the venerable typewriter-making firm of Smith-Corona, with steady sales and respectable earnings, appeared to be doing quite well during the mid-50s. Insiders knew better. Other typewriter makers were diversifying into the promising fields of business machines and computers while Smith-Corona lagged behind. Its dominance of the portable market was being challenged by low-priced and well-designed foreign machines...
Electronic Bill Writer. A transistorized electric typewriter that takes instruction from a punched paper tape and automatically types in all the repetitive material on business order forms was put on sale by Smith-Corona Marchant Inc. The machine stops at the proper place on the form to let the operator type in such variables as quantity of items ordered. At the same time it prepares a punch tape record of the whole order, so that subsequent copies can be made automatically. Price...
Primary objective of the expedition was to photograph the solar corona, an envelope of burning gases around the sun. Three cameras, loaded with ultra-sensitive film, determined the structure of the corona and its polarization...
Menzel plans to photograph the solar corona, an irregular luminous envelope visible only during a total eclipse. An unusual feature of his observations will be he use of polaroid cameras in place of raditional heavy equipment...
...earth's corona, Astrophysicist Shklovsky reasons, is mostly hydrogen which came originally from the earth's oceans. Water vapor works its way up from the lower atmosphere. When it reaches about 60 miles, its molecules are broken into oxygen and hydrogen by solar radiation. The hydrogen, being lighter, tends to rise, and above about 1,000 miles it becomes the main constituent of the atmosphere. Some of its molecules get hot enough and move fast enough to reach escape velocity and leave the earth entirely. Moscow's Professor Shklovsky believes that enough hydrogen has escaped in this...