Word: scans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wood and Frondel are analyzing the rock's chemical composition much as they would an earthbound rock's. Barghoorn will use an electron microscope to scan slivers of lunar rock for fossil
Line Guide. The reader rests one finger on the vibrating alphabet unit, while using his other hand to scan the line of print with a probe that picks up and transmits the image of each letter Should the probe wander off the printed line, the lack of vibrations on the pin unit tells the reader to readjust...
...captured by their video equipment, it was rapidly translated into electronic signals of varying intensity representing 64 shades of light and dark. Those impulses, in turn, were beamed to earth in the binary language of the computer. To make one complete picture, the spacecrafts' equipment had to scan 665,208 points of light and dark, each of which was converted into six bits of computer information. That five-minute job involved more than 4,000,000 bits for each picture. The poky equipment on Mariner 4 needed 81 hours to make a less detailed picture. After being picked...
Between your trips down, scan your Kant...
...clerks and other aspiring writers around the country yearned to "make the Post." In the mid-'20s, unsolicited manuscripts poured in at the rate of 2,000 a week, and had to be carted into "readers' " offices in big wicker baskets. Most could be dismissed with a scan of the first few pages, but editors had to watch for glued and upside-down pages farther on -writers' tricks to detect unread pieces...