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Last week Philco Corp. announced that it has licked this production bottleneck by a delicate electrochemical method of "machining" germanium. Two hair-thin streams of a liquid indium salt are squirted at opposite sides of a tiny slab of germanium. The streams carry an electric current, and their electrified liquid slowly dissolves the germanium. When they have almost drilled through the slab, leaving only a few ten-thousandths of an inch, the current is quickly reversed. The drilling stops, and the reversed current deposits metallic indium on both sides of the thin germanium wafer. The result is a transistor with...
Hogan, formerly of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, is noted for his successful construction of the microwave gyrator, which in principle permits the simultaneous transmission and reception of a single frequency from the same antenna. Trefethen is currently doing research in the field of fluid mechanics and heat transfer in liquid metals. Since 1951 he has been Technical Aide to the Director of the National Science Foundation in Washington...
...junior officers so they could train new technicians as the division moved along. At one of the training sessions, a young captain spilled napalm on his uniform, which promptly burst into flame. Dean knocked him down in the dirt to extinguish the fire, and some of the flaming liquid spilled on his own leg. Dean was hospitalized, and for a while it looked as though he would miss his cherished dream of battle after all. But when the division embarked for Europe, Brigadier General Dean hobbled away from the hospital on crutches "without much authority," and climbed aboard...
...certain to rise from decade to decade," there may be a worldwide shortage by the end of the century. Coal, on the other hand, sometimes regarded as a dying industry, is in for a big boost in the coming decades. Say the authors: "The use of fuels extracted in liquid and gaseous form from the earth's crust will probably . . . approach its completion by the end of this century. The era of coal, which began 150 years earlier, is likely to continue longer and leave a deeper impact on mankind...
...Bach!" he exclaimed to a reporter for Sydney's Sunday Telegraph. "Listen to this." And the room, wrote the reporter, "was filled with liquid sound, mellow, golden," as Kapell turned to his keyboard. But Kapell had his fill of Sydney critics; it was goodbye forever. "I shall never return," he said...