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Refinements still to be made by Zworykin's technicians include modifying the capsule so that it can transmit information on internal temperatures and acidity, and reducing its size. One refinement ruled out (partly because of bad lighting conditions ) by the inventor of edible FM: intestinal television...
...book glorifying President Chester Alan Arthur, whose plain life left plenty of room for fictional embroidery. The object: to demonstrate "brainstorming" (TIME, Feb. 18), a technique of group creativity that joins a lot of brains into assault on a single problem or concept. The brainstormers-two professors, an inventor, a hospital director and Cartoonist Al Capp-also laid down some amusing spoofs, e.g., a Chinese friend comforts Arthur in a miserable boyhood moment, thus laying the groundwork for his presidential veto of the Chinese Exclusion...
Discussions. Even inside Russia, the universities, if not in a revolutionary mood, were in a questioning frame of mind. Much of the debate gathered around a bestselling novel. Vladimir Dudintsev's Not By Bread Alone, the story of a brilliant young inventor who is victimized by a group of corrupt bureaucrats (standard villains of Soviet fiction) and is sent to a prison camp. Since its publication last August, Not By Bread Alone has been eagerly seized upon by millions of young Russians who find, beneath the technical jargon which covers many of its pages, a hidden symbolism...
Tall, blond, athletic Luis Alvarez, 45, is not only a leading physicist; he is also an inventor, a somewhat Buck Rogersish adventurer and an old-style American success story. After completing his graduate studies in 1936 at the University of Chicago (where he learned to fly an airplane in 3 hours and 15 minutes of instruction), he joined the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California. In 1940 he migrated to Cambridge, where Massachusetts Institute of Technology was setting up its great Government radar laboratory. There he invented and developed G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach), the radar blind-landing system which...
Other men than Rossby noted this startling fact. Dr. Vladimir Zworykin, inventor of the iconoscope, the first effective television-camera tube, sold the idea to his Princeton neighbor, the great Mathematician John von Neumann. Teaming up with Rossby, who provided the meteorological knowledge, Von Neumann and his brilliant assistant Dr. Jule Charney devised ingenious mathematical tricks to shoehorn weather observations into computing machines...