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...Ohio State's bullet-legged Negro Jesse Owens equaled records in the 100-metre dash, the broad jump. ¶ Indiana University's slim, robot-running Donald Lash (TIME, June 22), having clinched a place on the U. S. Olympic team the evening before with a record-breaking 10,000-metre run, set still another in the 5,000-metre championship. ¶ The University of Southern California's big-boned Harold Smallwood nosed out California's much-touted quarter-milers, Negroes James LuValle and Archie Williams, in the 400-metre race. ¶ Negro Cornelius Johnson who arrived...
Flying blind is nothing new. All trans port pilots do it as a matter of course, letting a robot pilot keep the plane on the flying beam radioed from each major airport. Landing blind is another matter. First done in 1929 by Major James Harold Doolittle while a safety man watched from an open cockpit, it was not successfully executed solo until 1932 when Captain Albert F. Hegenberger managed it at Dayton. Since then, though many a method has been tried for commercial use, none has proved satisfactory enough to permit planes to take-off & land when fog shuts down...
United's system embodies no new principle, is merely a new combination of two well-known mechanisms - the robot pilot and the landing beam system designed in 1933 by the Bureau of Air Commerce. As the plane approaches the airport, it leaves the flying beam and picks up two new beams by means of a special cross-shaped antenna on the plane's nose. One of these is a vertical directional beam about five feet wide at the airport. The other is a lateral, curved landing beam which slants down onto the field from one side, almost vertical...
...attached to the wall. Red, blue and yellow threads spun off their spools, were knitted into an intricately patterned fabric. The puzzled operator peered over, beneath and behind the row of darting needles, looking for a chain of perforated cards. There were no cards. Enthusiastic demonstrators of this new robot, called the Lefier machine, claimed that it was the longest advance in pattern reproduction since Jacquard...
...each of which controls a needle in the loom. Thus, for every cross-section of the design, the proper needles are lifted from their positions. After every three sweeps (for a three-color design) of the contact the cylinder carrying the copper sheet rotates a notch. In effect the robot electrically scans the design line by line, much as a modern televisor scans an image. It does not matter how complex the pattern is. A signature scrawled on the copper sheet would come out faithfully reproduced in the fabric...