Word: tubefuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sunlight TV Tube. Conventional TV pictures tend to fade out when the light in the room gets too bright. This is because the glowing substance (phosphor) on the face of the picture tube is a reflective powder. In sunlight or other strong light, the reflection gets brighter than the picture and washes the picture...
...project was to improve airplane instruments, but the transparent phosphor can be used for TV too. The picture will form as usual when the set is turned on, but light coming from the room will be reflected very weakly. Most of it will pass into the interior of the tube and be lost. So the picture will stay sharp and clear with full daylight shining on the tube...
...fire-fighting rocket is almost as simple as a wheelbarrow. It has a metal tube packed with solid propellant and feathered with four fins. The working parts come packed in a cylinder of strong waterproof cardboard which can be attached as the "warhead" and filled with water or chemicals. When fired from a simple launching rack, the rocket flies more than a mile. When it hits, its liquid cargo splashes in fine spray, drenching a 50-yd. circle. Rockets carrying 10 gallons cost about $35 each. California and U.S. forest fire fighters are interested. They do not hope...
...content with an FM transmitter so small that it can be swallowed for broadcasting from inside the digestive tract (TIME, April 22), medical research-TS and electronics designers have produced a microphone so small that it can be put in the end of a catheter (flexible tube) and worked through a blood vessel right into the heart. Developed by New Jersey's Gulton Industries, Inc., the microphone is one-twentieth of an inch in diameter, three-quarters of an inch long. Dr. Howard L. Moscovitz of Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital has used it to diagnose heart defects...
...Magnetics Inc. was started in a Butler, (Pa.) garage in 1949 by Engineer Arthur O. Black, who had an idea for magnetic nickel-iron amplifiers to take over some vacuum-tube functions. The first year Black had seven customers, sales of $15,000. This year, with more than 800 customers clamoring for "magamps" for radar, sonar and computer systems, Magnetics Inc. employs 320 people, will see its sales soar to $5,000,000. Says Black: "It never crossed my mind that we'd fail, but I never expected this...