Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Rich Refuge. No one doubts that Yankee ingenuity will solve many of these problems. Already, in fact, U.S. technology is at work in the water war. Plastic-hulled airboats with airplane propellers ply the canals leading from Cambodia. On the navigable waterways the U.S. Navy's Operation Market Time employs a fleet of 120 water-jet-powered patrol boats armed with machine guns and grenade launchers...
...formed by volcanic activity. Scattered over their slopes, he says, are humps similar to the cinder cones found on major terrestrial volcanoes. The picture also clearly shows that the floor of the crater is remarkably flat. To Kuiper, this indicates that the subsurface was once in a fluid or plastic state, and that it solidified, causing the crater floor to level...
...antique design still adorn countless offices. Some have not even been equipped with an electronic timer, available since 1955, to go with the use of high-speed film and cut the exposure time to a fraction of a second. The vast majority still have, at their business end, a plastic cone three or four inches long. This makes aiming easier, but, unless specially insulated, it permits secondary radiation to scatter in all directions...
When the adventurous art lover at Manhattan's Waddell Gallery inserts his hands into the gap (disposable plastic gloves are provided to lend a sense of formality), they break the light beams, thus activating eight loudspeakers that, hidden in the uprights, rumble and reverberate like a blighty Wurlitzer. Each of 144 electric eyes paired in opposing scales from high to low along the length of La Machine controls a musical tone. It was possible to pick out Féere Jacques on the gizmo; impromptu boiler-factory blues was a far simpler tune to produce...
...Army's Harry Diamond Laboratories in Washington, scientists are fast catching up with electronic technology. They have already produced fluidic oscillators, memory and logic circuits, and have devised fluid versions of resistors and capacitors. They have also learned to etch fluid channels into small blocks of metal and plastic, producing fluidic versions of electronic integrated circuits [TIME, Sept. 2]. Though they are still no match in size for the microscopically small electronic I.C.s, several compact fluidic circuits can now be interconnected and fitted into durable and compact inch-square wafers...