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...than 142,000 printed words an hour. A staff of 28 copy deskmen routed this material to writers and editors all through the night; a force of reference librarians dug out background material. At each candidate's election-night headquarters, TIME had its own special wirephoto arrangements to transmit pictures...
Fast Talker. A month ago, Digitronics brought out a new machine, the Dial-o-verter, for which it has high hopes. It can take information from punched cards or tape at various places around the U.S. and transmit it by telephone, at the rate of 1,500 words per minute, to a central computer. The machine automatically checks itself for errors, can be started by telephone from the central office with no local operator on hand. Digitronics says that the machine is now being tested by one Government agency to relay statistics from branch offices to a central computer...
...sound. To the space traveler, the chief harm that they can do is psychological. So Whipple suggests that the nerves of spacemen be shielded from this hazard by surrounding their capsule by a thin metal shell that wi!! intercept the speeding dust particles but will not transmit to the capsule the unnerving sounds that they make...
COMMERCIAL SATELLITE will be launched by the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. within a year. A. T. & T. will put a 175-lb. experimental communications satellite in a north-south orbit over the Atlantic to transmit telephone calls and TV broadcasts between North America and Europe...
...Signal Corps, of course, has no such Teletype brigade. Its trick is to record the satellite's signals directly on tape, then slow the tape so that normal machines can deal with the signals at their leisure. Beyond this operation, the satellite can be instructed to receive and transmit any message simultaneously. This permits communication on line-of-sight microwaves between places such as Fort Monmouth and Puerto Rico, which are separated by a high bulge of the earth's curvature...