Word: electronic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the long suspense ended. The world's most powerful atom smasher, which will generate 200 billion electron volts of energy, will be built in Weston, Ill., a tiny (pop. 400) village 35 miles west of Chicago. A corn-belt community that began as a housing development only seven years ago, Weston is in for some very big changes. Its growth was stunted when the original promoter ran into financial difficulty and pulled out, and it remains so undeveloped today that it has no doctor, no school, no movie house, not even a store...
...shielding, is targeted to go into operation in 1975. Assuming that Congress appropriates the funds, construction will begin in two years. By enabling scientists to break down the atom into more fundamental pieces than ever before, the smasher could eventually produce discoveries on the magnitude of those of the electron and neutron...
...most familiar techniques for teaching elementary electricity is to compare the flow of electrons through wires to the passage of fluids through pipes. The analogy is so valid that scientists are now changing it from a textbook explanation to practical application. They are building fluid circuits that supplement and even replace some electronic devices. By controlling and amplifying the flow of fluids (either gases or liquids), just as electron flow is controlled and amplified in electronic circuits, they have conjured up a variety of odd new fluidic devices that offer valuable improvements on their electronic counterparts...
...marble walls were the world's most carefully designed and elaborately equipped facilities for research into the causes and prevention of blindness. The institute's research complex is staffed not only by ophthalmologists, but also by anatomists, physiologists, biochemists, pathologists and a microbiologist. It boasts three costly electron microscopes to permit research to concentrate on the ultrafine structure of the eye. All rooms have closed-circuit television for the staff to monitor patients' activities and check on their safety. Patients who have no useful vision will be able to entertain themselves with talking books and piped music...
Strong Attraction. Unable to reach the sulphur atoms to which they are strongly attracted, the sodium atoms each give up an electron to become sodium ions that are able to pass through the ceramic. The extra electrons, having no other way to rejoin the ions, flow through an external circuit that carries them to the sulphur electrode. That electron flow is an electric current...