Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...network of grotesque antennas-the counterpoint races on in time to a thousand clocks, paced by thousands of hard-hatted men, their ears attuned, their hands ready at buttons, keys, switches, knobs, cranks and valves, their eyes darting from tube to dial, their pulses shooting over the unhurried step of time. And then the fire, the roar, the chorus of triumphant cries...
...have a Labor government. Wrote London's conservative Daily Telegraph last week: "These foolish concessions might lessen the danger of political fission within the Labor Party. But they would do nothing to lessen the danger of nuclear fission in the world at large. Indeed, by getting out of step with the Americans and breaking up Western unity on disarmament, we might even be reducing the chances of an eventual East-West agreement...
Last week the National Bureau of Standards told how it is teaching its SEAC (Standards Electronic Automatic Computer) to see. First step was to give SEAC a photocell and a simple device that enables it to scan a photograph and store it in its memory as 30,000 bits (yes or no units) of information. When the picture is wanted again, it can be recalled and displayed on an oscilloscope as 30,000 light or dark squares. In this case SEAC does nothing with the picture except to memorize...
...First step, said Putt, one of the Air Force's topflight aviator-engineers (Carnegie Tech, Caltech), will be to use existing ballistic missiles to boost Sputnik-type satellites into orbits. The Thor can be fitted with upper stages that will launch a satellite weighing more than one ton, said Putt, and the Atlas (none has flown full range yet) can launch a two-ton satellite, or better...
Home builders and owners have long dreamed of a cheap and practical heat pump to maintain comfortable temperatures in homes both winter and summer. This week the dream was a big step closer to reality. General Electric Co. unveiled a new, three-ton model of its Weathertron heat pump specifically designed for the mass home-building market. The new G.E. pump will heat or cool a seven-room house in temperatures ranging from -20° to 120°. Cost: about $2,000, including installation...