Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Meudon station. When the plates were developed, he detected on several of them a tiny spot of light only about 52,000 miles from the planet's surface. Reasonably confident that he had found a tenth Saturnian moon, he promptly telegraphed news of his discovery to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the world's clearing house for celestial discoveries...
...SMITHSONIAN...
...First Ladies" uses some of the memorabilia from the Smithsonian's extensive collections...
...exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution is a solid-state computer of 1957 vintage, the first practical large-scale model ever built. This cybernetic antique served as the guidance system for U.S. ICBMs until 1961 and ticked off more than 300 countdowns. The unit was built by the Burroughs Corp. of Detroit, which, though short on share of market-less than 4% com pared with IBM's 75%-is long on invention, reliability, and lately, profits...
...exhibition will be seen next at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American...