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...cantilevered truss made up of tetrahedrons (four-sided pyramids) and octahedrons (eight-sided figures), which looks like something made by a giant playing with an Erector set. Made of lightweight aluminum tubes, the "octet" truss cantilevers outward 60 ft. from a single support, weighs only 3 lbs. per sq. ft. v. some 100 lbs. for a comparable structure in conventional steel beams...
Rubber-Walled Cell. Later a wealthy woman called "L" became O'Connor's mistress and patroness, bought him erector sets, clockwork trains, motorcars, liquor, and phonograph records ("Tchaikovsky for ... relishing misery . . . Stravinsky for hangovers"). All the while, she "walked by "my side, never-ceasing in her disciple's adoration." But by the time the two of them had spent all "L's" capital, she had reached the stage where she "complained of Indians staring at her" and attacked O'Connor with chopper, razor blades and cutlery. Soon, "L" was tucked away "in a rubber-walled...
...parents who are driven to ten-to-one martinis by the intricacies of their children's electric trains or erector sets are in for a new shock this year. Thanks to a boost from Sputnik and Muttnik, 1957 is the year of the "scientific" toy. As the buying season opened this week, retailers displayed an array of ingenious, intricate and fiendishly clever inventions. Mothers and fathers will have to grapple with the mysteries of boats, guns, radios and dolls operated by batteries, transistors, motors, sonar waves, even the rays of the sun. When the inevitable time comes for repairs...
...Sabre jet) packs a pair of Marquardt ramjet engines and an Aerojet rocket booster (see above) that push the missile along at 1,500 m.p.h.. give it a range of 250 miles v. 50 miles for Nike Hercules antiaircraft missiles. Once launched from a trailer-like "transporter-erector," an electronic guidance system flies the Bomarc, seeks out the enemy formation until it gets close enough to trigger a high-explosive, or nuclear, warhead. Boeing has been working on an answer to high-flying atomic bombers ever since the first 6-52 designs took shape in the late...
...over Britain last week, workmen were using a strange new construction material that looked amazingly like sections of a toy Erector set and worked much the same way. The material was the Dexion Slotted Angle, a slotted steel strip bent to form a right angle and designed to be bolted on to other strips ad infinitum. Ever since it went on sale five years ago, it has been used as the frame for everything from waste baskets to cradles for huge water towers. Among its most enthusiastic buyers is the U.S. Air Force, which uses it on air bases...