Word: diagraming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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British carriers are to be equipped with big curved mirrors that face aft from the end of the landing runway (see diagram). The mirror is mounted like the mirror of a dressing table, so that a gyro stabilizer can keep it at the proper angle no matter how much the carrier may be pitching. On each side of it are horizontal rows of colored lights. Strong white lights shine into it from near the carrier's stern...
...interested in Einsteinian physics after seeing a diagram of Einstein's unified field equations published in TIME...
...next player must build another word on the original, but only in such a way that every combinaton of adjoining letters which he makes forms some word. Short, recondite words like gnus and zax-(see diagram) have a habit of appearing...
...newspaper office. The reperforator duplicates the tape while printing the words on a monitoring machine so that editors can read the "taped" story. The tape is then fed into a typesetting machine which automatically sets columns of type ready to be placed in forms and put on presses (see diagram...
...Decca system uses "master" and "slave stations", which set up a wide-spreading pattern of intersecting waves (see diagram). The pilot pushes a few buttons that activate needles on three dials. Then, by means of other simple controls, he transfers the readings of the hands to a pointer that touches a special chart. Thereafter he need do nothing. The chart and pointer move automatically. By looking at the pointer, he can tell exactly where he is above the terrain represented by the chart. The pointer also traces a line telling where he has been...