Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This huge telescope is housed in the largest building at Oak Ridge, a dome-shaped shell with rotating walls. Electric power, stepped up by generators, operates the instrument and moves the walls along their built in track. Since all the operations can be directed by a set of pushbuttons attached to a lengthy cable, a single person can control all the machinery, including the moving observer scaffold, from anywhere in the room. Two or three times a year, the 1600-pound lens gets a cleaning, and is re-silvered. Because of its size it cannot be aluminum coated--there...
...will shell out $5 billion more during ECA's two remaining years (this is approximately the amount that ECA's blueprint has called for all along...
...model shown was designed to work best at Mach 3 (about 2,000 m.p.h.). The air "ramming" in at the open front is slowed down and compressed in the ring-shaped space between the outer shell and the pointed inner section. Some of the compressed air is diverted by a scoop and used to run a turbine and drive the fuel pump. The rest is mixed with fuel and fired by a small flame that burns in the shelter of the conical igniter. The hot gases roar out through a nozzle lined with heat-resistant ceramic. Their reactions propel...
...office in Houston's Shell Building boasts gleaming brown morocco leather furniture, a five-foot tinted photograph of Glenn McCarthy, five bronze-plated baby shoes (he has four daughters: Mary Margaret, 18, Glennalee, 17, Leah, 15, Faustine, 12, and an eleven-year-old son, Glenn Jr.) and Miss Houston of 1945. The ex-Miss Houston, an imperious and well-endowed young woman named Averill Knigge, serves him as secretary...
...Purpose Prejudicial." One day last week Fuchs's superiors, at the request of the police, asked him to appear at their offices in London's Shell-Mex House. Two Scotland Yard men placed him under arrest. Fuchs turned to one of his scientific superiors and asked: "Do you realize the effect of this at Harwell...