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...pleasant woodlands surrounding Boston is known routinely as Route 128. But to U.S. industry, it is known more romantically as the Space Highway. Amid the landscaped woods of the industrial parks along commuter-clogged 128 are tucked scores of low, angular buildings bearing science-fiction names: Trans-Sonics, Tracerlab, Microwave, Dynametrics. These plants add up to the biggest and fastest-growing science-based complex* in the U.S., and provide the nation's most impressive proof of the vast new industrial potential of the electronics and space age. Beyond that, they are a dramatic demonstration of the fact that behind...
...Cambridge, looked very much like the radio-repair shops and jobbers that surrounded them. To finance samples of new products, the founders dug into personal savings or tapped friends. Cash came from such risk-minded organizations as American Research & Development Corp., which sponsored many science companies (High Voltage, Tracerlab), and from individual investor groups such as those of Laurance Rockefeller, who now is sponsoring one of 128's newest, Geophysics Corp. of America. As the prototype models succeeded, the young companies outgrew their quarters and moved "out to the highway...
Fallout Detector. A radiation detector that plugs into any standard radio or TV set was demonstrated by Tracerlab, Inc. When fallout occurs, the device sounds a wailing alarm through the speaker, drops in pitch as radiation grows less dangerous. Price: about...
Radiation Tab. Tracerlab, Inc. of Waltham, Mass, has developed the first film badge to record quarterly as well as weekly radiation readings from the more than 300,000 Americans (dentists, radiologists, X-ray technicians, etc.) whose work exposes them to radiation. Thirteen times more sensitive than present weekly film badges, Twin-film Service reduces the risk of overexposure...
Evacuation. By this time Manager Converse was thoroughly alarmed. When he got the full report from Tracerlab, he telephoned the Northways and McVeys, told them to buy new clothes, take showers, put on the new clothes and get out of their houses. Both families moved to motels. Their secret was out, and their neighbors began to shun them as if radioactivity were as catching as smallpox...