Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ordinary electronic equipment is prostrated by the temperature of boiling water (212° F.). As the temperature rises, rubber and plastic insulation melts, chars or burns. Glass softens and loses its insulating power. Metals oxidize or melt. Even without such drastic damage, heat causes changes of properties that keep the apparatus from doing...
...friction-heated cockpit of a high-speed airplane has to be cooled elaborately to keep the pilot alive. If the pilot is taken out, and the craft becomes an unmanned missile, its interior must still be cooled to keep its electronic brain from dying of heat prostration. So, decided General Electric Co., heatproof electronic components should prove useful in the missile business. This week, after years of work, it showed whole electronic assemblies working efficiently, though red-hot in a glowing electric furnace...
Titanium for Heat. G.E.'s heatproofers attacked their problem bit by bit. Since copper and aluminum fail at high temperatures, they turned to titanium and corrosion-resistant alloys. They learned how to coat wires with ceramic insulation. They made condensers out of fused aluminum oxide. In vacuum tubes they used titanium and ceramics instead of copper and glass...
Radiation Resistance. While working on the heat-resistant components, G.E. scientists found that materials unaffected by heat can often stand atomic radiation, too. So they finally came up with a set of gadgets that ignores neutrons and gamma rays. Two of their assemblies, enclosed in a heated capsule at 842° F., spent 1,000 hours in the heart of the Oak Ridge nuclear reactor. They worked all the time, affected neither by the heat nor by the storm of radiation...
...Corot's advice always to paint out of doors. Pissarro made no effort to turn the young peasant woman into a monumental symbol, but accepted her as part of the landscape. His real joy, as his broad brush strokes show, was in catching on the spot the midday heat and glitter...