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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passage. Polaroid's 3-D bonanza is only a wider opening in a vein it has been profitably mining for years. The phenomenon of polarized light has been a scientific curiosity for at least two centuries, but Land, as a teen-age youngster experimenting in his home laboratory, was the first to find a way to exploit it. He impregnated plastic with tiny needle-like crystals that allowed only light waves vibrating in a single plane to pass through. As a physics student at Harvard, Land perfected the idea, and left before graduation to found his own company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: 3-D Bonanza | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...speed up pedestrian movement on downtown street corners, Barnes set traffic lights to stop all automobiles dead for an interval and instructed people on foot to hustle across intersections, catty-cornered if they wished. The phenomenon was jeeringly christened "Barnes's dance." Barnes was unabashed. To win his critics over, he spoke at community meetings answered questions on a Thursday-night radio program, cruised through the streets for hours every week to watch traffic at firsthand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAFFIC: Denver Doctor | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...Saucers' 'is popular science at it best. It can be recommended to at least four groups: those who believe in flying saucers; those who do not believe in them; those who do not know what to believe; and those who are interested in a first rate analysis of a phenomenon in social psychology...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Menzel Says 'Flying Saucers' Real, But Are Usually Familiar Objects | 3/13/1953 | See Source »

Land-Office Business. This caused another phenomenon. Neon-lit slot-machine satellite towns began springing up just outside city limits-Garden City just outside Boise; Jerome, outside Twin Falls; State Line Village just over the boundary from Spokane, Wash. They did a land-office business. Meanwhile, other slot-machine towns assumed new, weird shapes: the village of Crouch, for instance, pushed its limits out in a strip one foot wide and 10 miles long, to make slot machines legal in a distant roadhouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDAHO: Out, Damned Slot | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

Other important results have been the development of new instrumentation techniques. Probably the most unique among these is the hot wire aenomometer, a device which measures the velocity of an air stream by measuring the cooling effect of the stream on a hot wire. With this instrument, the phenomenon called rotating stall, where the air flow across a rotor blade is destroyed, was first discovered here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Carries on Aeronautical Research . . . | 2/27/1953 | See Source »

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