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Reports from the instruments can be sent to earth by radio telemetering. The transmitter may get its power from the fierce sunlight of space, perhaps using the silicon solar batteries perfected by Bell Telephone Laboratories (TIME, July...
...Geneva was more than a competition in public relations. It was a unique chance to assess those increasingly less mysterious Russians. It was a chance for the Russians themselves to come out into the sunlight: the world, as well as the Russians, gained by that. And it was a time of reading of intentions. The reading was optimistic. "There ain't going to be any war," proclaimed British Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan, arriving home. "A new era," said Russia's Bulganin. "There is evidence of new friendship in the world," said Eisenhower...
...archaeological peanuts: a Byzantine town about 2,000 years younger than Arzawa. Under the Byzantine ruins, the diggers uncovered a row of small houses that had been destroyed by fire. Mixed in the ruins were the telltale "champagne glasses." The first bit of Arzawa had come into the sunlight...
N.F.P.'s version of the battery is a thin, blackish wafer about the size of a half dollar, enclosed in protective glass. It has two electric terminals like any other bat tery, and when it is exposed to bright sunlight it generates about half a volt. A square yard of the batteries would light a 100-watt lamp or run an electric fan. A few acres would give enough power for a fair-sized town...
When Bell Telephone Laboratories announced its silicon solar battery (TIME, May 3, 1954), it fired the imaginations of the science fictionists, and the solar system was soon abuzz with solar-powered space ships. Trimming their silicon sails to catch the sunlight, spacemen used the electricity generated by the batteries to push themselves from planet to planet...