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...Infra-Rub speeds up the flow of fresh, rich blood, thus helps drive away pain-causing pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Great Medicine Show | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

Even if the astronomers do not get better pictures of Mars, they will surely learn new facts about it. Such fast-improving devices as the infra-red spectrometer will tell new details about the composition of the Martian atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Visit with Mars | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...officials, at some 400 service clubs and European restaurants, McLane's trucks roll up with everything from fresh celery to fresh caviar, from pineapple to pretzels. Last week McLane launched his new est project: to convert Europe to the short-order diner. McLane hopes to install his own infra-red cookers in some 6,000 small cafes, thus create a vast new market for his precooked hot dogs, cheeseburgers and U.S.-style barbecue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Incredible Yankee | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

Electronic devices for seeing in very dim light have become commonplace, but all of them are blind in total darkness. Last week Baird Associates. Inc. of Cambridge, Mass, showed a recently declassified "camera" that needs no light at all, only infra-red (heat) radiation from faintly warm objects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Heat-Sensitive Eva | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...that the parchment indeed dates from either just before or just after 700 A.D. Determining the age of the musical notations was a knottier task, since they could have been scratched in almost any time up to the 12th century, when that kind of notation went out of style. Infra-red and ultraviolet photography made the words and music assume about the same intensity, a fact that leads Schrade to believe that "at least the sub stance of the inks is basically the same," hence, that the neumes were written not long after the words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mystery Tune | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

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