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Peaceful Gunsmoke. The kingdom's first roads, ports and irrigation projects were built by Aramco, but the company was careful to bill the Saudi government for public works and let the government do the ordering. The result might not be maximum efficiency or economy, but it kept Aramco on...
For photographing the eclipse any camera can be used, but the longer the focal length the larger the sun's image will be. The camera also must be protected from the sun--use small lens openings and neutral-density filters throughout the partial phases.
...feats, Thirring protests in Britain's New Scientist magazine, are accomplished by concentrating a powerful flash of laser light on a tiny area by means of a lens. It is a nice trick in a laboratory, but warheads plunging down from space hardly can be expected to carry lenses to expedite their own destruction. To fuse a steel casing weighing 100 Ibs. would require a laser light strong enough to deliver 807 kilowatts of energy to it for a full minute. If the beam were to hit the warhead 30 miles above the earth, it would be spread...
Painful Brilliance. Manufactured by the Old Delft optical company in Holland, Dr. Bouwers' night eye was originally designed to brighten the dim pictures on doctors' fluoroscopes, to give a good look at a patient's internal organs without the need for powerful and dangerous doses of X...
Star and starlet were shining up to each other: Maximilian Schell, 32, a highly touted Hamlet in Hamburg, and former Queen Soraya, 31, who adorned his opening night and who reportedly takes tips from Max about her new movie career. What's cosmically significant about that? Nothing, says Max...