Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first flights are generally made on a calculating machine, such as the REAC (Reeves Instrument Corp.) analogue computer used by CalTech at the Army's Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Pasadena. The performance characteristics of the missile's components go into this brainy machine in the form of dial settings; the results come out as curves drawn on paper. A simulated flight takes only a few seconds and costs almost nothing. Between flights, adjustments can be made to see if the missile can be improved by altered tail surfaces or controls. To test such details by actual flights would...
...Natural Philosophy" watched planets on long arms circle about a 4 ft. universe. The sun and moon moved in their appointed orbits; hands pointed to the proper phase of the zodiac marked on a brass ring that encircled the painted, deep-blue sky. Near the top, an inset dial indicated the day, the year and the hour. To Scottish-born John Witherspoon, Presbyterian theologian and sixth president of the college, the ornate mechanism both illustrated the majesty of the Lord's work and satisfied scientific inquiry...
Long-Distance Dialing. The New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. announced that residents of Englewood (pop. 23,000) will soon be able to dial long-distance calls direct, to eleven cities stretching from Boston to San Francisco. The company has divided the nation into 80 areas, each with a three-number code of its own. The caller dials the code, then the local number. Time and charges are recorded automatically. The telephone company plans to extend the system eventually to the entire...
According to Oldenberg, the reason that Geiger counters in the Rochester, N.Y. area were able to detect radiation after Saturday's snow is that the instruments are exceedingly sensitive. "If you approach a Geiger counter with a wrist-watch which has a luminous dial, it will sound like a thunder-storm," he pointed...
...able to park his car in front of a meter and keep his pennies; he was able to punch that windbag who lives upstairs right in the mush without fear of retribution; he was able to speak his unclean mind, and look smugly at his luminous watch dial. The little man was able to let off steam, to show haughty contempt for the forces of stratified authority. Tomorrow, the little man will be able to go back to his job in the credit department, to his filing cabinets, to his tedious task of screwing nuts on bolts and feel good...