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...hour-long show, which was produced byshining a four-watt laser at a curtain of water infront of the Weeks Bridge, featured images ofdolphins and other sea creatures. But thereflections of the images on the bridge and themist in the air rendered the designs nearlyunrecognizable...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Beginning is Formal, Frivolous | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...family's apartment in The Bronx, 23-year-old Stanley Gordon found himself momentarily at loose ends. But Stanley, a radio bug, and an interested participant in the Atomic Age, soon found something to do. He got out his tools and hooked up a microphone, a four-watt amplifier and an eight-inch loudspeaker. Then, seized with the kind of dreamy thirst for power which causes humans to throw matches into gas tanks or shoot fat women with BB guns, he leaned over and began to speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Everybody Take Shelter! | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...unit consists of plastic envelopes of assorted sizes and a lightweight portable black light lamp which can be placed on the navigator's table or worn like a miner's lamp. The envelopes are made of orange-red fluorescent-treated transparent plastic. The lamp may be the four-watt, 24-28-volt black light already standard with both the Army & Navy. When the lamp is held five inches above an envelope, the latter's fluorescent surface steps up the short ultraviolet waves enough to make them visible, not enough to destroy eye adaptation. The illumination, unlike that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Aviation Research | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

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