Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frank Dobie kept unusually quiet, for him. He did say one thing: that he was writing a book about coyotes, and might have to include a discussion of the human branch of the species...
...with a Bang. Human bodies can stand this alarming torment. But now comes the problem of getting out of the cockpit. "Climb out and jump?" Baldwin asks. "Try it in a plane making 600 miles an hour. . . . You can't move; the wind plasters you into your seat. ... So what...
...Field has been experimenting with a pilot's seat that is shot out of the cockpit, pilot and all, by a 37-mm. shell. The difficulty is getting the seat out fast enough to clear the plane, but not so fast that the sudden acceleration will injure the human spine or break the hip bones. The prospects for this look fairly good. Wright Field workers have proved by experiments on themselves, says Baldwin, "that a man can take even the forces of 20 'Gs' [20 times the force of gravity] on his hip bones for a very...
These various devices, each of which must work perfectly if the pilot is to survive, have not yet been tested at maximum conditions of altitude and speed. But the U.S. Air Force hopes to try them out soon on a human volunteer...
...author of the quantum theory lived long enough to see his discovery affect all branches of science and all human life. Last week Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, 89, one of history's greatest discoverers, died...