Word: diagramer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voyage to Venus, for example, the space ship would start at 8 miles per second in the direction opposite to the motion of the earth (see diagram) * Since the earth moves at 18½ miles per second, the space ship's net forward motion would be 10½ miles per second (18½; minus 8 miles per sec.). This speed is too slow...
...diagram is schematic, neither complete nor accurate by astronomers' exacting standards...
...collectivism. Returning from Europe on a German ship soon after Hitler came to power, he was summoned to a ceremony at which the new swastika emblem was raised in place of the republican flag. When an officer asked him to salute, he replied: "I would as soon salute that diagram as the first proposition of Euclid...
There is no known way to turn infrared light directly into visible light. But it can be done indirectly by a complicated electronic device which closely resembles a television tube. The infra-red rays from the black-shielded spotlight hit the target and are reflected back (see diagram). Entering the telescope, they are focused by lenses on a special screen at the forward end of the tube. This "image" is not itself visible, but it knocks streams of electrons out of the screen...
...white smoke trail. The first German-American V-2 rocket, a mongrel fabricated by U.S. engineers, Army ordnance men and German scientists from odds & ends of captured German V-2s, will be launched from the White Sands (N.M.) Army Ordnance Proving Ground. If the experts have figured correctly (see diagram), the rocket may be expected to zoom faster and higher than any projectile has yet flown, with the possible exception of a few wartime German V-2s. If the Army knows where the monster is going to crash land, it is not telling...