Word: sensor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sensor and Instant Lawyers. Chief Reddin is full of ideas, such as incentive pay to raise patrol-force status and keep good men in prowl cars. He wastes no time blaming the Supreme Court for "handcuffing" policemen. He is much harder on scientists and technicians for ignoring urgent police equipment needs: tiny radios, night glasses, lightweight armor, heat sensors to detect hidden fugitives, metal sensors for frisking suspects. He also wants someone to develop a gadget to stop a fleeing car's engine and a computerized "instant lawyer" to help police field interrogators avoid unlawful procedures...
...minutes while ground computers honed its next course. Then, high above the Indian Ocean, the second-stage Agena engine reignited and kicked the orbiter into its precise moon-bound path. Two antennas and four solar-power panels snapped out, giving the space craft a windmill look. Guidance sensors aligned it with the sun; some six hours later, a star tracker began hunting for Canopus. When the sensor repeatedly failed to lock onto the guidance star, ground controllers made do by using the moon instead...
...through its unbroken shell. As proof, Rogallo exhibited the live and healthy chick of a bobwhite quail whose incubation had been monitored but undisturbed. And, said Dr. Hartwig proudly, the Food and Drug Administration is completing the space-to-chick-to-man cycle: it is using Rogallo's sensor to study the effects of drugs on the heart...
...search out targets for the bombers to hit, the Recce planes are crammed with cameras, infra-red detectors, special radar, and secret electronic devices that can jam enemy radar. With special heat-sensor equipment, they can pinpoint tiny cooking fires that betray the presence of the Viet Cong. "We can't kill them all, but we can make sure Charlie has to eat cold rice," says an Air Force targeting officer. With powerful 4,500,000-candle-power flash cartridges, Recce planes can turn night into day to photograph enemy convoys sneaking down the Ho Chi Minh trail...
...seen to it that Manhattan's major north-south streets are going-or will go-one way, and traffic has speeded up about 30%. Last week Barnes finally got permission to begin installing a $100 million system of traffic lights that will get their cues from what sensor-sent messages tell a computer about the flow of traffic...