Word: silicones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Transitron has pioneered in the development of low-noise transistors for use in computers and for military applications. It was the first company to manufacture silicon rectifiers commercially, is now one of the biggest producers of devices used to deliver large amounts of direct current in most electronic circuits. Currently, Transitron is pioneering in the development of thermoelectric materials, which can produce electricity when heated...
...shortly obliged him with a surrogate birthplace (St. Petersburg) by accepting Czar Nicholas I's commission to build a Moscow-to-St. Petersburg railroad. When the elder Whistler died in a cholera epidemic, James was old enough to enter West Point. In a chemistry exam, Cadet Whistler identified silicon as a gas, and West Point decided to do without him. "If silicon had been a gas," Whistler used to say, "I would have been a major-general...
...FOOTNOTE* The alternator generates alternating current, which is turned into direct current for the car's electrical system by a rectifier. Previously, rectifiers were too bulky for use in autos, but Chrysler has adopted miniaturized silicon-diode rectifiers used in missiles...
...satellite's side. As the solid-fueled third stage was about to fire some 150 miles above the earth, they snapped out into position. Each arm branched in two directions and each branch carried a flat paddle about the size of a checkerboard, covered with 2,000 silicon-based solar cells mounted on a thin plastic honeycomb (an elaboration of the light-collecting window in Vanguard I, which still draws in enough energy to keep the tiny satellite busily broadcasting 17 months after it was launched). At 22,000 m.p.h., the new 142-lb. satellite went into orbit (rotating...
...will protrude four paddlelike surfaces carried on branching supports and arranged in such a way that one of them will always face fairly accurately toward the sun. Both surfaces of the paddles will be covered with a mosaic of cells made of thin sheets of a photoelectric material (probably silicon) that turns sunlight into electricity. The paddles will be folded when the satellite is in the nose of its launching rocket and will snap into position as soon as it is spaceborne. The array of solar batteries is expected to develop as much as 400 watts, about enough...