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When the 914 came out, there was already a host of smaller office copiers for sale. Evanston's American Photocopy Equipment Co. and Eastman Kodak Co. with its Verifax dominated the "wet copying'' field, which uses chemical developers; Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. had its fast-selling Thermo-Fax, a dry method that uses heat from an infra-red lamp to form an image on specially coated papers. But the Xerox machine had a special appeal. It is a dry method that needs no chemicals, can duplicate anything from grease pencil to ballpoint pen, though it is more...
...trimmings: the swipes at RAND for its military bias, the rhetorical questions about who wants to survive in the "society that would emerge from the shelters" anyhow. and the final, strident, despairing plea for negotiations ("Both sides are driven to the conference table by the same iron compulsion of thermo-nuclear reality"). Nothing can disguise the fact that these arguments are of the heart and glands more than of the mind; and it is to Piel's credit that he does not try to disguise them (much...
Four groups of letter-writing professors across the country have agreed that shelters create "a false sense of security" which increases the possibility of thermo nuclear...
...adversaries had been literally together by agreement on a point Kahn summarized during the g. "The current military situation survive," the author of On Thermo War declared; Wolff nodded in ment with this assumption. If else...
...basic science. "Educating a person for a current technology or a current art just doesn't make sense any more," says Professor Ascher Shapiro. Referring to his own field of mechanical engineering, he explains: "Now we are concentrating less on the technological art and more on engineering science: thermo dynamics, flow dynamics, electromagnetic theory-things which will be part of a man's kit no matter what he goes into...