Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Berlin last week came news that technicians of Siemens & Halske Co. had developed a ''super-microscope" with a magnifying power far surpassing that of ordinary high-grade instruments. To obtain its supermagnification, the German instrument uses beams of electrons instead of waves of light...
Technically known as a mass spectrometer, Dr. Nier's instrument is designed to detect the presence of rare isotopic forms and also to give the most accurate measures even made of the relative abundance of different isotopes present in an element...
...employment of German and Italian assistance (TIME, May 23). Last week. Callender revealed that General Yague had gone much further. General Yague is a popular Left-wing leader of the Falange Española, the blue-shirted group of some 1,000,000 members, officially recognized as an instrument of the State much like Il Duce's Fascists. To a group of these in a Burgos theatre, General Juan Yague last month announced: "Our leader [General Franco] has said that no home shall lack bread and fuel. He is a man of his word. Social justice there will...
...throw away an empty whiskey bottle without hitting somebody who's just invented a blind-landing system. So says Irving Metcalf, senior aeronautical engineer of the U. S. Bureau of Air Commerce. Mr. Metcalf himself has designed a practical instrument landing device. And, according to an article, "Under the Weather," published this week in FORTUNE, there are about ten dependable blind-landing systems, including "Air-Track" (TIME...
Fastest climbing musical instrument in popular favor, according to trade statistics, is the piano accordion. Last year piano accordion sales took second place only to piano sales, accounted for $19,000,000 worth of business. There are at least 400,000 piano accordion players in the U. S. Their instrument, a more complicated and efficient descendant of the old-fashioned concertina, is really a small piano keyboard grafted on to an accordion...