Word: toole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists have always regarded their press as a prop of the regime. Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Beria, Molotov all served time on Russian newspapers and used them to consolidate their power. "No tool so flexible," said Stalin, referring to the press, "is to be found in nature." Today, some 7,000 of these tools-ranging from the big Moscow dailies, Pravda and Izvestia, to crude factory handouts-are published in 121 languages in Russia...
With its pistol grip and nubby barrel, the instrument looks like the handy ray gun with which Buck Rogers and Wilma used to zap Killer Kane. It is actually a space-age wrench. Cordless and battery-powered, it was designed by Martin Marietta as a zero-reaction power tool to be used by astronauts for turning nuts and bolts in the weightless conditions of space...
...together a space station while in orbit could not hope to use anything as simple as the big wrench with which a car driver changes tires. Every time he tried to exert pressure on nut or bolt, he would turn in the opposite direction. Martin's new tool, which will be tested on later Gemini flights, is designed to eliminate such reaction almost entirely. The spaceman's wrench, 10½ in. long, 9 in. high and 5 in. wide across the motor housing, has a built-in reaction absorber. When the astronaut presses the trigger, the motor near...
...dogs-that is, tell people apart by each individual's distinct chemical signature. So far, the researchers have found that human odors can characterize a person's age, sex, race, diet, health and general area of residence. Though still highly experimental, telltale smells could become an important tool. Under contract to the Federal Aviation Agency, the Illinois team is now working on a machine to sniff out bombs on airplanes...
Vicious Problem. Although a British scientist, Sir James Dewar, first liquefied hydrogen in 1898, it remained a mere curiosity until after World War II. Then it was enlisted as a tool in the modern specialty of cryogenics (the science and technology of very low temperatures), which has been instrumental in developments ranging from exotic new metals to important new discoveries in superconductivity. Liquid hydrogen came into its own when it was put to use in bubble chambers for experiments in high-energy physics. In such studies, accelerators smash the nucleus of a hydrogen atom, scattering subnuclear debris through the bubble...