Word: electronized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toured Philadelphia (his hostess-guide: Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining, once his tutor in Tokyo), took the Pennsylvania Turnpike at 75 m.p.h.. and, at the R.C.A. laboratory in Princeton, N.J., watched color television and inspected the egg of a sea urchin (magnified 10,000 times by an electron microscope). In New York the Prince turned up at a Yankees-Browns night game, was a red-carpet guest at City Hall, visited the Stock Exchange and United Nations headquarters, and was feted at a Waldorf-Astoria dinner. On the way to Hyde Park to lay a wreath at the grave...
Rays from Space. Scientists know that cosmic rays are protons or larger atomic nuclei striking the earth from space with energies up to one hundred million billion electron volts. But they do not agree about where cosmic rays come from or how they get so powerful. Professor Bruno Rossi of M.I.T., a leading authority on the subject, seems to favor, tentatively, the theory that the cosmic ray particles were shot out of stars at moderate speed and were gradually accelerated by magnetic fields in space. But he is by no means sure. "At present," he says, "no hypothesis about...
...first floor houses seven labs, a dark room, two cold rooms, and a special equipment room designed for the use of delicate instruments--the electron microscope and diffraction grating spectrograph. An isotope area is also equipped for work with radioactive material...
...enroll in Chemistry 2, expecting a tough and boring semester of inorganic chemistry. By January they know that they were right about the course's toughness, but few call it uninteresting. Associate Professor Leonard K. Nash enlivens his courses by sprinkling lectures with graphic experiments. Tinker toys show the electron configurations of the elements to Natural Science 4 students, and Nash proves the explosive quality of hydrogen by turning a flamcthrower on soap bubbles filled with...
...Transistors, the tiny, tubeless gadgets that do the work of much larger electron tubes and last almost indefinitely, will put electronics to work in "many fields which the electron tube has not been able to serve . . . We should not be surprised to see electronic appliances find their way into the home. Air conditioners, using electronics, eliminating motors, blowers and compressors, and therefore noiseless, may lead a mighty procession." ¶In industry, "wherever danger, remoteness or discomfort preclude the presence of a human observer, the industrial television camera can take his place." ¶In education, "schools . . . may employ their TV sets...