Word: lasered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Making use of everything from steadily shrinking microcircuitry to high-speed computers and high-energy laser beams, the three U.S. military services this fiscal year are pouring at least $500 million into research and development of new electronic snooping and jamming gear. That bill reflects not a penny of the price paid for R. and D. in the electronics of some new offensive weapons so costly that the military can barely afford to test-fire* them...
...trunk, and walked into the offices of the little firm, a manufacturer of pinholes no wider than a wavelength of light, and found that now he had to wait. The owner of the firm was on the telephone, but Horowitz didn't mind. He glanced through some brochures on laser equipment, and then stared into the rain, wondering how long it would take his dog, a Siberian husky, to dry when he returned home that evening...
...into brilliant displays of red, orange and yellow. Now two atmospheric scientists at NASA'S Langley Research Center think that they have found the cause of the heavenly pyrotechnics. Writing in Applied Optics, Physicists Michael McCormick and William Fuller Jr. report that their surveys of the stratosphere with laser beams have revealed two new layers of dust at altitudes of 10 and 12.5 miles. That extra dust would enhance a well-known phenomenon: when the sun is low in the sky, its rays travel through more of the atmosphere and thus encounter more dust particles. The particles, in turn...
...1920s, electronic engineers have been looking for a simpler, less fragile and more economical device for displaying images transmitted over the air waves. Now scientists at the Westinghouse Research Laboratories in Pittsburgh think that they may have found a way. At this month's electro-optics and international laser exhibition in San Francisco, they displayed the prototype of a flat-screen TV system that is less than one-eighth of an inch thick and may some day be hung on a wall like a pane of plate glass in an ordinary picture frame...
Jason helped develop the electronic battlefield system, laser-guided bombs, and other weapons systems used in the Vietnam...