Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Animated Display. To demonstrate their compound's wide capability, RCA researchers sandwiched a thin film of the liquid crystals between two sheets of glass. The inner surface of each sheet was coated with a transparent electrical conducting material. When a small negative charge was applied to one sheet and a positive charge to the other, so much turbulence was caused inside the liquid crystals' molecular structure that the film turned instantly opaque. Next, in a more complicated display, the conducting surfaces were divided into a mosaic of squares, each separately linked to the external power source; this enabled...
...transmitting the image from one stage to the next without excessive distortion or loss of light. Army researchers, under Electrical Engineer Robert S. Wiseman, known as "Mr. Night Vision" to his colleagues, overcame that hurdle by using fiber optics. These unusual lenses are made up of bundles of extremely thin glass fibers, each of which transmits light by bouncing it from wall to wall down the length of the fiber. With their glass-fiber lenses, the Fort Belvoir team not only kept the light in a straight line but prevented wasteful leakage out of the system...
...kneel to his bishop, so unexpectedly chosen, only to find that the prelate is already kneeling to him. "Wilt thou accept pontificality?" The bishop whispers: "The answer is 'Volo' or 'Nolo.' " For an instant, terrified gratification flashes across Rolfe's face. Then the thin shoulders square: "Volo...
WHILE dissecting pupae in search of the liquid's production site, he noticed a pair of long, very thin tubes in the front part of the pupa. These were the remains of the silk-producing tubes of the caterpillar. They led to a single opening on the moth's face just underneath the mouth. It was impossible to tell exactly where the liquid comes from since the first drop appears suddenly and covers the face. Yet the mouth and the old silk tubes were the only two openings and the mouth could be discounted because Kafatos had already shown that...
...Actinomycin D, which is, incidentally, used to stop the growth of cancer cells. From then on, all protein synthesis depended on pre-existing messengers. He detected new protein molecules by exposing the cells to radioactive amino acids, which are incorporated into any protein the cell synthesizes. Kafatos has made thin sections of the cell and covered them with a thin photographic film. The radioactivity behaves like light and activated the film. His process is called autoradiography. He could then develop the film, count the activated silver grains over the two regions of the cell, and know how much of each...