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Meet Harold Rosen, a slight, gentle-mannered 70-year-old Cal Tech Ph.D. who predates the space age by a dog's age. Yet every time you watch a live-television feed from distant parts of the earth, chances are the signal has bounced off one of the satellites he helped design for Hughes Aircraft in his 37-year career. "He is uncommonly brilliant," says his biggest fan, younger brother Ben, 63. "He's a national treasure...
Logically speaking, if these two guys profess a view of something's being big in the future, it might be smart to pay attention. They do. That something is a newfangled, high-power, high-mileage, nonpolluting automobile engine that their company, Rosen Motors, plans to build and sell to automakers. "We see Rosen Motors as the capstone of our careers, the crowning achievement," says...
...Rosen engine design, announced last week, draws its power from two very different sources. The first is a high-powered turbine--a mini-jet engine if you will--that will keep your car purring along on the freeway with just a spit of gas every now and then. For quick acceleration and hill climbing, the turbine is linked to a flywheel, an energy-producing and energy-storing contraption that is at least as old as the first potter's wheel--a stone that had to be heavy enough to continue turning between kicks from someone's foot. Flywheels were...
Although some observers worried that the bright lights the store displays at night might seem out of place in the mellow Harvard Square atmosphere, Rosen said there have been no complaints...
...city is an organic thing and it keeps changing and evolving," Rosen said. "And I think this is a good change, to have a children's bookstore, to have a bright corner in the Square...