Word: detections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very high treble--sounds above 8,000 cps--provides the timbre characteristics by which the instrument's particular qualities are distinguished. The range to which the average person's ears respond is about 25 to 15,000 cycles per second. The ability to detect ultra high tones above 15,000 cps is limited mostly to babies and dogs...
...Observatory maser has achieved a ten-fold increase in the sensitivity of the telescope, which is used to detect the radio waves emitted by stars and other sources scattered throughout the universe...
...certain that I detect a slight imbalance in Secretary Goldberg's scale [cover picture, Sept. 22], or at least in Artist Chaliapin's portrayal of that scale. On the other hand, the Secretary seems to be tilting his head toward the lighter...
...Microbarographs (sensitive recording barometers) got the word slightly later. An explosion in the lower atmosphere puts almost half of its energy into shock waves that travel through the air, turning first into audible sound waves with a thunderlike bang, then into fluctuations of pressure. Microbarographs can detect this pressure wave more than 1,000 miles away. The U.S. has a ring of microbarographs waiting for interesting waves to wash down from the Soviet border. A clear reading from a microbarograph gives a good estimate of an explosion's punch...
...wrote himself, he says with coy fraudulence that "I live in Westport with my dog." The dark facts are that he has not lived in Westport or had a dog for years. But to disprove such rumors and humors involves infiltrating a distant-early-warning system equipped to detect journalists half a continent away...