Word: plasticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder world of electronics, much of the magic is performed by a simple looking device-a plastic ribbon covered with particles of iron oxide. Its name: magnetic tape. On its surface a fantastic amount of sights, sounds and statistical data can be electromagnetically recorded. The tape can be played over and over again without wearing out, can be erased and used again for new recordings. Tape recorders are challenging phonographs for hi-fi music; they fly in jet planes and guided missiles to record test data; in the first earth satellite, a tape recorder will read dozens of instruments...
...Department of Defense is afraid that the Russians may beat the U.S. in the satellite race. According to this theory, the Russians are probably working on a satellite just big enough to be tracked. It may carry a small radio transmitter, or it may inflate a balloon of aluminized plastic film. Expanded in space by a whiff of gas, it might reach a size that would be brilliantly visible at dusk or dawn. This bright Communist star, rising in the west every 90 minutes and streaking rapidly eastward, would win enormous prestige for its Soviet launchers. To head off such...
...yards of roadwork to "unlazy" his legs and continued to catch Floyd's furious punches. Midway in the tenth round, Referee Ruby Goldstein called off the bloody farce. While Hurricane was hauled to the hospital to be patched up by a team of urologists, neurologists and a plastic surgeon, Patterson started work for his next fight. In three weeks he is scheduled to meet Olympic Heavyweight Champion Pete Rademacher. Theoretically, he will be defending his title once more...
...tricky job of making curium into a thin film, and sandwiching it between aluminum foil to form a suitable target. The apparatus was arranged so that any atoms of element 102 formed would be knocked out of the target and would stick to a "catcher foil," a bit of plastic film...
...atoms. With practice, the scientists cut the total elapsed time to 1½ minutes, and enough of the newly created atoms remained to produce alpha particles. The scientists had their proof when these particles turned out to have almost exactly the energy that physical theory had predicted. Next, the plastic foil was burned away, the invisible residue dissolved in hydrochloric acid, and the acid then poured through a column filled with material that has varying attraction for different chemical elements. When alpha particles were found coming from the place in the column predicted for element 102, the scientists could...