Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are systems like Omnitrac, made by Britain's Decca Navigator Co. and tested successfully on Eastern's Washington-New York-Boston shuttle. It not only gives the pilot the required altitude for his flight path but also displays his plane's position on a moving map or TV-type cathode-ray tube throughout the trip. Finally, there are more sophisticated systems like the Arma-Decca Mona system (for modular navigation) and Collins' ANS-70, which can store and read out voluminous information, including navigational data on an airline's entire route structure. These advanced...
...spacecraft. Still alive and transmitting, the 1,200-lb. robot has sent back more than 6,800 pictures since it began circling the planet last November. By patiently matching and assembling these photographs, scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have put together a jigsaw-puzzle-like map of a strip of Mars extending 30° above and below the equator as well as an overall view of its south polar cap. Indeed, detailed photographs, showing features as small as 100 yards across, were among the highlights of the 15th annual session of the international Committee on Space Research...
...designed for all ages. Several, like "Cat and Mouse," are variations on the game of tag. If the cat intercepts the mouse's flight through an overlaid maze of squares, the mouse disappears from the screen. Other games are designed to be educational. In "States," for example, a map of the U.S. is attached to the screen and children are asked the name of the state illuminated by the square of light. In an electronic version of roulette, bets are placed on a separate board and a light square moves around a simulated wheel before coming to rest...
...remedy actual trouble, each teacher, administrator and employee now carries a pencil-size ultrasonic transmitter. When triggered, the "pencils" spark a light on a wall map in Schimandle's office; a horn honks for the principal's attention. Help can be dispatched within 30 seconds. So far this year, Schimandle reports, the number of major incidents has dropped to zero...
...most students here spent time in meetings to map out a broad lobbying campaign in Washington Monday and Tuesday; some joined in civil disobedience at the JFK Federal Building in Boston where almost 400 persons were arrested in three days of demonstrations...