Word: slab
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week Philco Corp. announced that it has licked this production bottleneck by a delicate electrochemical method of "machining" germanium. Two hair-thin streams of a liquid indium salt are squirted at opposite sides of a tiny slab of germanium. The streams carry an electric current, and their electrified liquid slowly dissolves the germanium. When they have almost drilled through the slab, leaving only a few ten-thousandths of an inch, the current is quickly reversed. The drilling stops, and the reversed current deposits metallic indium on both sides of the thin germanium wafer. The result is a transistor with...
...Wright translated his own basic principles into practice could be seen in a big, retrospective show of photos, plans and models, on display last week in a giant, slab-roofed pavilion -he designed for the purpose on a vacant Manhattan lot adjoining the Guggenheim Museum. If Wright can overcome the objections of New York City's housing authorities (TIME, Aug. 10), a new Guggenheim Museum, shaped in a spiral that expands upward, will rise on the same site next year. By then Wright's show, which has already toured Europe, will be on tour in the Orient. Among...
...house from a mountain spring. "If Ed could only see how close the water is to the house," she said. "When Ed was home, the water was up on the hill and we had to carry it down." She moved back into the kitchen and tossed a fat slab of sausage into the frying pan. "We're gonna put on the big pot and the little one too. Keith Marrs is gonna bake a fruit cake-Ed loves fruit cake. We'll have fried chicken with lots of gravy. Ed likes soup beans, too; we'll have...
...South Platte River. On his third cast, Ike hooked a ten-inch rainbow trout, and by noontime he and Nielsen had pulled in a dozen. At that point Ike took complete command of the party. Driving to a nearby ranch house, he "borrowed" from the flustered housewife a slab of bacon, a pound of butter, a large paper bag, cornmeal, salt & pepper. Thus equipped, he moved on to a campsite where he built a fire and set the bacon frying in a skillet. While it fried, he put cornmeal, salt & pepper in the bag, and shook the cleaned fish...
...strong enough to resist the pull of the wind, and the fibers of its branches restrain the buffeting with their tautness . . . All living things exist in a state of constant tension; only the inanimate and the dead rest in place by weight alone, rock piled on rock and slab leaning against slab. All truly modern building is alive...