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Lecture IV: Magneto-Optical Trapping ofMetastable Helium: The (Good and Bad) Role ofCollisions--by Alain Aspect, Morris LoebLecturer on Physics, Institut d'Optique Theoriqueet Apliquee. Jefferson Hall, Room...
...biggest surprise is the computer's built-in disk drive. Rather than rely on standard floppy disks, Next comes equipped with an erasable magneto-laser disk built by Canon and controlled by a proprietary chip. The 5 1/4-in. disk, which will be the first of its kind to come to market in the U.S., slips in and out of the computer like a floppy, but holds 256 megabytes -- more data than 300 IBM PC or Macintosh disks. As if to underscore the massive storage capacity this represents, Next's disk comes loaded with software programs, operating instructions and four...
...often on the heels of progress come standardization, conformity and impersonality. The citizens of Bryant Pond, Me. (pop. 500) have decided to keep at least one automated evil at bay. The town is the last in New England to rely completely on a magneto crank telephone system. When the proposal to replace the magneto phones with modern equipment came before the public utilities commission recently, more than 200 townspeople showed up to defend the system...
What about other sources of power? When many estimate that there are over 300 years of fossil fuels left-coal, shale, oil, natural gas-and that geothermal, fusion, solar, magneto-hydrodynamics and other clean power technologies are just around the corner, why the rush for fission? These other power technologies haven't been given a chance. The AEC spends 83 per cent of its research dollar on fission power. Con Edison spent more on advertising last year than on all research. In fact, over ten times as much is spent on advertising for electricity as is spent on research into...
Bosch's 30 plants and $500 million in sales grew from a small Stuttgart electrical shop, where Robert Bosch in 1886 started a modest business to install lightning rods, doorbells and telephones. He soon devised a new magneto-ignition that was superior to existing types, and in 1896 entered the young automobile business. He grew wealthy supplying such auto pioneers as Gottlieb Daimler, but continually worried over the money he made. Bosch gave away $5 million in World War I profits, explaining: "The profit I was making while other people were losing their lives depressed...