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...rocket's nose was a complex instrument package designed by Physicist Herbert Gursky and containing a sensitive X-ray scanner and a small camera pointed at Scorpio for 55 sec. of the brief ballistic flight. By measuring the changing intensity of X rays detected by the scanner and coordinating the scanner with the camera, Giacconi's group was able to locate Scorpio's X-ray source about 1,000 times as accurately as any previous studies. They also determined the angular size of the radiating object itself, and concluded that the X-ray source would probably appear...
...lunar equator. It will also take an admiring look at Surveyor 1, which now sits silently on the moon's Ocean of Storms after prodigiously transmitting more than 11,000 close-up pictures last June. After dry-developing its own film, Lunar Orbiter 1 will use a light scanner one-twentieth the thickness of a human hair to send pictures back to earth for kinescope reproduction...
...radar-directed approach was perfect until he was only a few hundred yards short of the runway. Then the control-tower radar scanner saw in horror that the huge DC-8 suddenly had sunk twenty feet below the correct glide path. "Level off," commanded the tower operator. Seconds later, the plane dropped off the radar screen. Too low, the plane's wheels apparently snagged on the breakwater at the edge of the runway, sending the DC-8 cartwheeling down the field...
...Detroit's main post office, a prototype of the scanner has already processed more than 500,000 pieces of mail. As many as 36,000 letters an hour can be fed into a conveyor system that carries them past a cathode-ray tube. The tube's scanning beam locates the last line of each address, converts it to electrical impulses that are recorded on an electronic version of a scratch pad. They are then read by a computer that recognizes city, state and ZIP code characters by comparing them with 6,000 combinations of standard characters...
...Post Office Department plans to install three more of the $260,000 optical scanners in Detroit and two more in Buffalo, with others to follow in major mail centers across the country. Though each optical scanner can do the work of twelve mail clerks, Postmaster General O'Brien has promised automation-conscious Detroit that "no employee will lose his job as a result of the machines." With U.S. mail volume rising at the rate of 2.3 billion pieces a year, he says, the Post Office needs even more men to move it. Moreover, no one has yet designed...