Word: sensor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jeeps and mail trucks. The fault lay in a $20 pollution control system part, made for AMC by Cleveland's Eaton Corp., that earlier had passed EPA tests. After several months on the road, a brazed joint in the back-pressure sensor has been breaking and causing AMC's engines to emit 50% more oxides of nitrogen than the law allows...
...Nicholas T. Zervas, chief of neurosurgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital, M.I.T. Physicist Eric R. Cosman, and colleagues at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital have now constructed a remarkable sensor that warns of pressure increases by means of radio telemetry. As the investigators explain in the Journal of Neurosurgery, they drill a small hole in the patient's skull and insert a piston so that its base rests on the brain's outer casing. Built into the piston is a miniature induction tuner. If pressure inside the cranium increases, it pushes the piston up a fraction...
...there is anything on the ground," he said about the Soviet reactor. That was puzzling, since the chief of the crew manning the equipment on the original sniffer plane was a U.S. Air Force specialist who is a highly respected nuclear physicist and unlikely to be confused by false sensor readings. Were the Canadians and Americans trying to bluff the Russians into thinking that their spacecraft had totally disintegrated? No one on the outside could be sure. The search for localized radiation continued into the weekend...
Down at our level, we have some pretty fancy electronic gear too. There's SOTAS-stand-off target acquisition systems-which use moving target radar to tell us exactly where enemy troops are massing. And REMBASS, which stands for remotely monitored battlefield sensor system. It uses acoustic and seismic sensors to fill in any gaps in surveillance -say, where the terrain "blinds" a radar system. They had something like it in Viet Nam to detect troop movements. One of these years, we'll be getting RPVS -remotely piloted vehicles (don't you like all the initials?). That...
...federally sponsored study of the "chance of escape after alarm" in several deliberately ignited homes showed that one heat sensor in every room provided only an 11% escape potential, while one smoke detector at each level of the house gave an 89% chance of escape. Many states and cities now require smoke detectors in all houses and apartments before they are sold or resold. The Federal Government will not approve a VA or FHA new housing loan unless the structure has detectors; Montgomery County, Md., will require all homes to be equipped with the sensors by July 1, 1978. Most...