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In 1507 a German geographer named Martin Waldseemüller drew two maps of the known world. As research, he used the recent account of Florentine Navigator Amerigo Vespucci, who said he had found a new continent, actually South America. Waldseemüller named the land after its apparent discoverer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Amerigo the Beautiful | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

Discoverer is an ambitious craft. It car ries in it a complicated guidance system that watches the horizon with infra-red eyes and shoots high-pressure gas through a series of jets to keep the rocket horizontal in respect to the ground below. When a Discoverer - and there have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Space Surge | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

So far it has not been - a fact that fails to bother its sponsors. Says an Air Force officer involved in the program: "With the Discoverer, we sort of rigged our own public relations trap, because recovery was the last item on our laundry list of objectives. But Discoverer is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Space Surge | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

They have already begun to flower. Midas profited from the "capability" lessons taught by Discoverer. Samos will certainly profit. And so will some of the most elegant of the other systems now being developed.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Space Surge | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

In his new Medical Research Building at Pennsylvania, Kahn has put his principles to work by erecting great servant towers that suck in fresh air through nostrils at the base, throw off laboratory fumes from stacks that soar 25 ft. above the roof. In place of the usual hallway cubicles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Form Evokes Function | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

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