Word: electronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...workshop will occupy the second and third floors, and the Cambridge Electron Accelerator will establish magnet assembly shop on the first floor and basement levels. The Building and Grounds Department is moving later this month to its new building near Soldiers' Field, and the Maintenence Shop will be converted during the summer...
...tiny capsule FM transmitter that can make just such broadcasts. It is small enough (|⅛in. long, 4/10 in. in diameter) to be swallowed like an oversized pill. Conceived by New York Physician John T. Farrar, the plastic-encased transmitter was designed by RCA's doughty old (67) Electronics Pioneer Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (who perfected the electron microscope) to record changes in activity in the digestive tract...
...Russians now have the world's most powerful particle accelerator. Last week Soviet scientists announced that the great proton synchrotron in the village of Dubna near Moscow has gone into operation and is generating protons with 8.3 billion electron-volts of energy. This beats the 6 billion-volt Bevatron at Berkeley, Calif, by a comfortable margin, and the Russian scientists are confident that their machine will soon reach its designed power...
...electron microscope shows that in green leaves the chlorophyll is arranged in flat disks like piles of plates. Biologists suspected that this delicate laminated structure had something to do with photosynthesis, but they could not make sense out of it until Bell Telephone Laboratories invented its solar battery, an electronic device made of thin layers of treated silicon. When sunlight hits the battery, it knocks electrons out of one of the silicon layers. Caught by another silicon layer, the electrons turn into a useful electric current. Hearing about this principle, Dr. Calvin and other scientists speculated that the thin layers...
...meet this objection, Drs. Calvin and Sogo cooled their apparatus down to - 140°C., close to the temperature of liquid air, so that electron-yielding chemical reactions could not happen. Then they placed deep-frozen chlorophyll in a magnetic field and shot extremely high-frequency radio waves through it. When strong light was shone on the chlorophyll, some of the radio energy was absorbed. This proved to Dr. Calvin that chlorophyll exposed to sunlight contains free electrons, and is therefore capturing light energy by the layer-to-layer method. Nature's green plants. Dr. Calvin believes, have turned...