Word: gears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rockets Above. When a hurricane comes within reach of Wallops Island, Va., the Navy will stand by to give it the works with two-stage rockets, which will soar 100 miles above it and take pictures of its spinning doughnut. The rockets' recording gear will be parachuted into the sea. When the blow is over, the instruments will call for help with small radio voices, and Navy rescue crews will hurry to pick them...
...powerful red-faced man with very pale blue eyes, slightly bloodshot from staring out over the vast open spaces he inhabited professionally, he bowed and sank into a chair. He went down massively, like a wounded elephant." Tiny is staggered by his fee-$1,800, which includes native servants, gear, a car and a truck. But since it is an anniversary present, her husband insists on their having a "luxury" safari...
...cheap, simple meter to measure blood flow directly. It was made by Dr. Henry H. Swain of the University of Michigan from the pinion gear of a discarded alarm clock, stiff wire, rubber tubing, glass bulbs. The tube is inserted directly into an artery. Blood passes through the tube, moves a pen that records on a graph any changes in the blood flow. Cost...
Under Russell, the Southern Pacific has concentrated on research and electronics to improve its service, developed a hydraulic, shock-absorbing coupling gear that permits freight cars to be slammed together without damage. The Southern Pacific has saved itself $1,000,000 yearly by putting inventories under the control of an electronic brain. In a new $7,000,000 switchyard at Houston, it installed a radar-electronic computer control system that shunts a freight car to its proper track, computes weight, windage, distance, then brakes the car to a gentle coupling...
...next ten days, a 200-mile-square area in the landless South Pacific is a danger area; shipmasters and airplane pilots traverse it at their peril. The U.S. Navy and Air Force take tip surveillance of the area; radar tracking crews from Alaska to New Guinea stand by their gear. On one of these days, a small, swift object rises steeply from the Kamchatka Peninsula. It soars into space on a curve 500 miles high, curves downward even more swiftly toward the danger area. For a few seconds it glows like a meteor, trailing a bright streak of flame. Then...