Word: labs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voice of Walter L. Brown, a Bell Lab physicist, came over the loudspeaker, "The first two commands, 'A' and 'B,' will come in the next minute. They are orders to the satellite to start transmission." After another pause, Brown said deliberately: "'A' command sent, 'A' command O.K. 'B' command sent, 'B' command O.K. We're beginning to track it. The large horn has it. Signals are entering the horn...
...chemicals on jars containing two lamprey lar vae, two bluegill fingerlings and two small rainbow trout. Some chemicals killed nothing; some killed both larvae and fish. Some killed two of the fish and one larva. Finally, in 1955, Chief John Howell of the service's Hammond Bay, Mich., lab, found a jar with its two larvae dead and its four little fish alive and frisky. The tricky compound that did the job best was 3-trifluormethyl-4-nitrophenol- more handily known as TFM. Developed by Government Biologist Vernon Applegate, TFM reaches into the mud and attacks lamprey larvae. Millions...
Most of the Hutchins products are finished in the kitchen of a brown stucco house in which violins, violas and cellos are piled under tables, filed away in secretaries, and hang from curtain rods and moldings. Mrs. Hutchins tests her newly devised instruments in a basement lab full of measuring equipment that she mastered only after several years of electronics study. The biggest of her new in struments, the large bass, and the small est, the treble, are still causing trouble. It would take a seven-foot man to play the large bass unless she can somehow alter its proportions...
...flashes squirted 2 X 10 21 (200 billion trillion) photons of light toward the moon. Most of these tiny bits of light got there, but those reflected by the moon's rough, dark surface scattered widely. Only a few of them bounced back to Lincoln Lab. Bunched together by a 48-in. telescope, the returning photons were sent through a filter that passed only light of the laser's wave length. Then the photons were picked up by a sensitive photocell...
...largely devoted to "an introduction to research problems currently under way by faculty members, and group discussions of these problems." Much of the time was spent reading about problems. "This is entirely within our conception of how the program should be run. We are not trying to train undergraduate lab technicians, but rather to show them how research is done. Reading is fully as important as labwork...