Word: electronized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This country's use of electricity," he points out, "has been doubling every decade since 1900, and is now doubling again." To keep Westinghouse doubling with it, Price has already spent $230 million on expansion, has earmarked $200 million more for the next three years. "We had the electron," says Appliance Boss McKibben, and Price supplies "the imagitron and the goositron...
...laboratory will not go into use until the spring semester, when facilities for research in solid-state physics and electron physics will be moved into the third floor from neighboring buildings...
...apparatus, however, can record the energy released by invisible radiation from the neutral hydrogen atom when its single electron does a "flip flop" (reverses its spin). By calculations astronomers can then place the gaseous clouds in their proper position in space...
...most important part of a brain, human or electronic, is its memory-a place where information can be stored until it is needed. Electronic memories cannot approach human ones. Their capacity is small, and the storage places (electron tubes, magnetic drums and the like) are bulky. Some of them can remember only for fractions of a second. If the memories are stored on punchcards or magnetic tapes, the machine cannot bring them to mind without slow mechanical pondering...
...physicists agree that negative protons are possible, but some like to speculate on the properties of reversed matter. It may turn into energy as soon as it encounters atoms of normal matter (when a positron hits an electron, they annihilate each other, leaving gamma rays as an X to mark the spot. All such possibilities, says Auger, are on "the frontiers of science." Only the 30 billion-volt cosmotron can test their reality...