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...country, the nation's history and reason for being resuscitated and kept alive in the tooting of a horn. On the following pages observe several revelers and their leaders in the midst of a process of continuity at once so corny and sublime we can hardly explain it to ourselves. But here...
Using the electron microscope. Alice Tryon was the first scientist to discern the details of the size, shape and function of these spores. The spores, she explain, can take any number of forms, but the size and shape is crucial for survial, as some may need to travel great distances and others may need to hold water...
Moreover, Mlicon and sporopollen in the walls of the spore must play some role in the plant's existence, but thus far no one has been able to explain what that roles is. In fact, the sporopollen is an unusually tough material scientists say, and although its chemical components are currently unknown, many feel it could be used to produce a host of durable synthetic products...
Some exhibits, for example, explain to the novice how a computer works and give him hands on experience. While one exhibit shows how the "magnetic core" memory of a computer operates, another has a voice synthesizer that can speak any sentence typed on its keyboard. Still other exhibits allow visitors to do sophisticated image processing on a picture of their own faces...
Computer pioneers at the Digital Equipment Corporation in Marlboro, Mass, started the museum in 1971 because, museum officials explain, these nostalgic executives felt a responsibility to preserve the remnants of the heroic days of computers. First nothing more than a jumbled collection of old computer machinery in the company headquarters, the collection became, in 1979, the Digital Computer Museum, whose first visitors came to see this smaller exhibit of the early stumbling of the Information...