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Litton products have already gone far round the free world. In Turkey, a probing Litton radar antenna reportedly keeps tabs on Soviet missile firings. Across the far north of Canada and Alaska, Litton klystron tubes generate radar beams for the Distant Early Warning line. At almost every sizable U.S. airport...
At Columbia University, months before Sputnik, Dean John Dunning of the School of Engineering confided a pet peeve to Dean Edward W. Barrett of the Graduate School of Journalism. Said Dunning: because most reporters assigned to science stories-and nearly all scientists-are ill-equipped to describe them in dramatic...
While developing an arsenal of ballistic missiles for retaliatory or offensive power, the U.S. is also working on defense against Russian ICBMs. Until recently, scientists and military men generally agreed that a nuclear-armed ICBM, hurtling toward its target at 15,000 m.p.h., would be an "ultimate weapon," against which...
Nicknamed ORDIR (omnirange digital radar), the new signal technique cannot be applied to existing radar systems. ORDIR's range is still secret, but it will "multiply" the present top range of radar, which can now pick out an airplane at 200-300 miles. In addition, ORDIR's high...
The staff of the Computation Laboratory will also conduct guided tours of the three large-scale automatic digital calculating machines, which include the famous Mark I and Mark IV computers as well as the newly-installed complete Univac system.