Word: experimentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clocking the Signal. Celestial radar mapping is based on the same radio-echo techniques used in plane spotting and ship navigation. But bouncing radar waves off planets requires far more power and precision. For the Venus experiment, the Goldstone installation operated at 100,000 watts, twice the power of the...
The nuclear age dawned in the wrong place, at the wrong time. In 1938, outside Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, Nazis paraded in the streets. Inside, German Chemist Otto Hahn patiently probed the secrets of the atom. He repeated an experiment that had been tried by half...
Hahn's innate caution stopped him from making so bold a claim in public. "As nuclear chemists," Hahn and his young collaborator, Fritz Strassmann, wrote later, "we cannot bring ourselves to take this step, so contradictory to all the experience of nuclear physics." But Hahn's former coworker...
They Went Ape. It is too early, of course, to measure the experiment's results, but its effect on Tehachapi's 1,320 inmates has been electric. "When this first came over the rumor wire, we couldn't believe it," says Fred Long, 25, who has been...
For the hotel, the plan is an obvious way of increasing the occupancy rate, especially during the slack summer season. If the New York experiment is successful (more than 25 people had taken advantage of the hourly rates by noon of the first day), Hilton intends to put it into...