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...Horowitz did not have time to joke now, and he quickly gave the graduate students some last-minute instructions on how to shut off the helium supply and checked out. He turned in his radiation counter--he hadn't absorbed much today--and was ushered out the back door by a security guard, a reminder of the classified work that goes on in the labs, an old radar-research center from World...
...about two seconds after Horowitz started the engine, there was a high pitched hum, a noise that ordinarily warns of an open door or unused seat belt. But all the doors were shut, and the belts were snapped into place Horowitz glanced at the dash. The hum stopped, and he drove...
...Horowitz had rewired his car so that the seat-belt warning sounds when the oil pressure is low. "That's much more important to know," he says, "and besides, I figure we'll wear seat belts anyway." He hooked up another switch to a fan, so he can cool his engine in heavy traffic, but otherwise he hasn't meddled with the European engineering, which seems clever...
...only just learning about cars, because unlike most teenagers who grew up in New Jersey in the late 1950s, he spent little time tinkering with engines or hanging around parking lots. When Horowitz turned 16, he didn't rush out to get his license--he picked it up a couple of years later. Cars didn't seem fun. Neither did boy scouts, football games or proms, the things most of his schoolmates liked...
...Horowitz enjoyed technology. He wasn't attracted to radio by the prospect of making small talk with other hams--he liked fiddling with the dials. One of his earliest memories is electronic--he and his older brother found pebbles with flecks of metal in their driveway in Elizabeth, N.J., and used them as crystals for radios. Then seven, he was astounded that science touched something as mundane as a rock in his driveway...