Word: hugheses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The argument of the book, already tightly packed, cannot easily be reproduced in a few paragraphs. It starts with a sketch of the scientific revolution that produced the hydrogen bomb and the ballistic missile, and then the arms race. Was the source of the arms race the deep mutual suspicion...
Desperate Ploy. At Hughes Aircraft Co. in California, however, three young engineers, Drs. Harold A. Rosen, Donald D. Williams and Thomas Hudspeth, were anxious to shoot for a higher target-nothing less than the 22,300-mile synchronous orbit conceived by Clarke back in 1945. They were sure they could...
Synchronous satellites, such as the Hughes men wanted to build, have much in their favor. Best of all, they seem to hang in one spot in the sky. But they also have two strikes against them before they take to space. They must be kept as light as possible because...
Syncom I, the Hughes-built oldest brother of Early Bird, reached its orbit in 1963, but an exploding tank of high-pressure nitrogen kept it from succeeding electronically. Syncom II and III, used by the Department of Defense, were successful, but their performance has been kept partially secret. Early Bird...
Approximately 300 professors from Boston-area colleges signed the statement. Among the Harvard signatories were H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History, Everett I. Mendelsohn, assistant professor of the History of Science, and Laurence Whylie, C. Dougias Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France.