Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paddle-wheel satellite is designed to make the most of the sun's energy. Its main body will be a 28-in. sphere covered with a thin metal skin. Out of it will protrude four paddlelike surfaces carried on branching supports and arranged in such a way that one of them will always face fairly accurately toward the sun. Both surfaces of the paddles will be covered with a mosaic of cells made of thin sheets of a photoelectric material (probably silicon) that turns sunlight into electricity. The paddles will be folded when the satellite is in the nose...
Famous or Notorious. By 1909 Wright was 40, and at the peak of his career. His Larkin Building in Buffalo had pioneered air conditioning, introduced the first metal-bound plate-glass doors, the first all-steel office furniture; with Unity Church in Oak Park, he had invented a whole vocabulary of cubist forms to express a new building material, poured concrete. Publication of his works in Europe created a sensation...
...step toward economic direct conversion of heat to electricity was announced by a Westinghouse research team. Its basis is the so-called Seebeck effect, discovered in Germany in 1821, which shows that a current flows between two different metals (called a thermocouple) when the metals are held at different temperatures. Since such a system has no moving parts, the thermocouple is theoretically an ideal way to generate electricity. Catch has been that most suitable materials cannot stand the high temperatures needed to generate thermoelectric power on a large scale. By combining indium (a soft, silvery metal used in dental alloys...
Gold has been an ancestor of paradoxes from the legendary case of avaricious King Midas, who nearly starved to death because everything he touched became gleaming metal, to the phenomenon of the U.S. Government's solemnly mining gold dug from the earth, only to bury it again at Fort Knox. Government red tape is a fertile field for the common, or garden, variety of stupidity. In Britain a professional man applied for gasoline coupons and got them with the warning that his car could be used only to take him to his place of business and that "the return...
...properties of line, color, texture and the various media. The courses are not directed to architectural design but are rather concerned with having the student gain experience with "the fundamentals of design" in its widest sense; and consequently the students play with three dimensional wire models, geometric patterns, and metal masks. The presence of a first rate artist directing the courses is note-worthy; it is comparable in kind, if perhaps not in degree, to the writing courses of MacLeish and the composition courses of Piston...