Word: instrumentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carolina coast on the return leg of a high-altitude flight to Boston. Lieut. Colonel William Henry Rankin, U.S.M.C., sitting under the curved glass canopy of the lead jet, took his two-plane flight over an angry anvil of cloud, sat back casually as his eye ran across the instrument panel. Altitude: 47,000 feet. True air speed: 500 knots. It was a crisp, sunlit flight, and the only problem in sight was to bore down through the overcast to the rain-browned runways of the Marine Auxiliary Air Station at Beaufort, S.C., only minutes away...
...Combat Surveillance Radar AN/TPS-25 (called Tipsy 25 by the G.I.s) is easily mobile, depends on the Doppler effect, which detects slight movements toward or away from the instrument because of the change in frequency of radio waves reflected from moving objects. When set up on the front line, Tipsy 25 is trained toward the direction of probable enemy approach. It covers an angle of about 30°, and if anything is moving there, the operator hears a crackling sound like radio static. He then narrows his beam and focuses on the suspected object. When he pinpoints it. he hears...
Blasts from Space. During the night of May 11-12, five balloons rose into the sky from the university's airport at Anoka, 20 miles north of Minneapolis. At 60,000 ft. their instruments began to register intense blasts of radiation. Study of the instrument packages at the University of Minnesota showed that the radiation was made of speeding protons from the sun. The radiation was about 1,000 times as intense as the cosmic rays that normally come from space. Unlike the Van Allen radiation, which is made of solar protons that have been trapped by the earth...
...opening work, Scnumann's Aminor sonota, Op. 105, Miss Bales evinced a pleasant tone, but not a very large one. Consequently, she was often overpowered by the piano--a common happenstance since Schumann, a pianist himself, tended to favor his own instrument in composing his chamber music. Technically, Mr. Tucker handled his part most expertly. The over-all result, however, should have had more passionateness...
AGES OF MAN (Columbia). Sir John Gielgud's Shakespeare sampler is presented at roughly half the length at which it was seen last season on Broadway. Gielgud's voice is never a particularly impressive instrument, and when the going requires full bellows, it seems in danger of failing him altogether. But it still possesses what it demonstrated so triumphantly onstage-the ability to roll out some of the most famous lines in the language in a green-gaged glow of surprise...