Word: liquidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pick up the receiver. Such items may seem like excerpts from a catalogue of 21st century technology, but RCA scientists say that they are already within reach. And they are only a small sampling of the practical new uses that are promised by the chemical phenomenon known as liquid crystals...
Animated Display. To demonstrate their compound's wide capability, RCA researchers sandwiched a thin film of the liquid crystals between two sheets of glass. The inner surface of each sheet was coated with a transparent electrical conducting material. When a small negative charge was applied to one sheet and a positive charge to the other, so much turbulence was caused inside the liquid crystals' molecular structure that the film turned instantly opaque. Next, in a more complicated display, the conducting surfaces were divided into a mosaic of squares, each separately linked to the external power source; this enabled...
Such uses of liquid crystals' electro-optical potential could be applied soon to a whole new generation of sports scoreboards, traffic-control signs, stock-market tickers, and instrument panels in cars and aircraft. Besides drawing very little power, the devices would work perfectly well in ordinary daylight, since liquid crystals reflect external light rather than produce their own. In the more distant future is a liquid-crystal TV screen. The entire television set, say the RCA researchers, not only would be as thin as a book, but could be watched even in the glaring light of a sun-drenched...
...small galery and geometric and cubist styles of all kinds are grouped in another. Dissimilarities are exploited as well. For example in the juxtaposition of Nicholaes de Stael's violent, angular Reclining Blue Nude on a Red Background and Jean Fautrier's The Gentle Woman, which is cool, liquid, and soft as an oyster...
...shaped structures on the face, called maxillae, which scientists had hither-to believed useless to the silk moth. Kafatos also found concentrated enzyme solution in the maxillae's cells, which squeeze the solution out through fine tubes leading to the surface of the maxillae. The enzyme, mixed with the liquid of the old silk tubes, gets painted over the cocoon's tip, thus dissolving the cocoon's glue and enabling the moth to push the strands apart and escape...