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...Tricks. The plane's micro-miniaturized gear includes "side-looking" radar to peer through clouds and map terrain far from its path. New cameras use "folded optics" to produce telescopic closeups in black-and-white or on new, grainless color film-which can be dropped in pods and parachuted to waiting intelligence officers. When sensitive receivers detect incoming radar pulses, the Blackbird can dip into its bag of tricks and give itself "electronic invisibility." There is even a top-secret method of masking the SR-71's heat emissions to confuse enemy infrared tracking. Put together...
...waste agricultural products such as cornstalks, corncobs, straw, hulls, burs. This stuff is ground up, made into "planks" and "boards" by compression plus a binder. Last week Chemical Engineer Orland Russell Sweeney of Iowa State College exhibited synthetic lumber harder than stone, stronger pound for pound than iron. Knotless, grainless, free of blemishes, some of his samples were heavier than teak, others lighter than balsa...
...York, Dr. Robert W. Carter, research head of Taylor-Sloane Corp., which has been trying for ten years to perfect metal alloy photographic film, announced that it had succeeded, that the new film would be on sale within 90 days. According to Dr. Carter, Taylor-Sloane film is cheap, grainless, sensitive, non-inflammable, indestructible, non-shrinkable, capable of being used on both sides...
...went to lunch he left a wet slab on a hot press, hurried back, when he remembered, to remove it. Meantime a cranky steam valve had permitted the press to grow hotter and heavier with the result that Inventor Mason found, instead of a fibrous board, a dense, grainless, rigid sheet of material, which, in its present refined form of "Presdwood," accounts for 70% of Masonite's business. The other 30% is in fibre insulating board...
...Berlin, last fortnight, Professor Emanuel Goldberg, German photographic chemist, announced that he had found a grainless emulsion for films which makes it possible to take a photograph the size of a pinpoint (.01 sq. millimeter) and greatly enlarge it with perfect reproduction of detail...
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