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...week Dr. Richard G. Folsom of the University of California described a quieter and trickier tunnel. Built with Navy and Air Force funds, it is a stainless steel tube only 5 ft. long and 18 in. in diameter. Its purpose: to simulate aerodynamic conditions near the earth's outer frontier-the atmosphere 50 miles...
...massive telescopic camera specially designed for photographing meteors was shipped last week to Harvard's meteor station near Las Cruces, N.Mex. Weighing 5,000 Ibs. and mounted on an odd, horseshoe yoke, it looks like nothing else on earth. The outer lens, 18 in. in diameter, is as convex as a fishbowl. Inside are other lenses, one of them also bowl-shaped, and a 23-in. concave mirror. The film is placed between the lenses and sucked by a vacuum against the curved surface...
...camera will not be used merely for scientific sport. Photographing meteors has a direct bearing on practical military technology. The meteors that bombard the outer fringes of the atmosphere are excellent tools for studying that inaccessible region. Their trails tell much about the composition, temperature and density of the outermost air. Such information is vitally important for the designers of high-flying guided missiles...
...foundation under the gray building is dirt and concrete 15 feet down. All the walls are filled concrete--the outer one three feet thick and the inner one, surrounding the cyclotron, six feet thick...
...Dome of Discovery; it looks like a huge bowl of soup with a plate over it. The Dome sort of catalogs the important contributions that Britishers have made in the study of the physical world, the land, the polar region, the living world, the sea, the sky, and outer space. Like many of the South Bank's exhibits the Dome contains, lighted up behind glass, much that is ordinary and well-known, little that is ordinary and well-known, little that is spectacular or even unusual. Several of the exhibits in the Dome were not yet finished. Something like...