Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tunnel deep, store grain everywhere, never seek hegemony...
...flown as it sounds. Dr. John Nicolaides, professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Notre Dame and a former NASA official, also became a believer after Kline sailed a model of his new glider practically the length of Notre Dame's practice football field. In subsequent wind-tunnel tests, the scientist confirmed what Kline already believed: that his wing was a true breakthrough in aerodynamic design, one that greatly resists stalling. Exactly why that is so remains a mystery...
...requested that Amtrak be given an "open-ended appropriation," in effect a blank check to finance operations. The department cited "notable gains" for Amtrak, and the praise was not undeserved. Despite its miserable start, Amtrak and its riders can really see light at the end of the long, dark tunnel...
...giving the Poles some of the best-equipped shipyards in the world. For example, Polish builders are experimenting with a method of constructing giant cargo ships in two halves and then joining them in the water. The two sections are fitted together with the aid of a horseshoe-shaped tunnel that enables welders to work both inside and outside the hull, producing a stronger seam than is attained by conventional methods. In the past, other Communist nations got most of the benefit of Polish expertise: one out of every two Rumanian fishing ships, and every fourth Albanian, fifth Soviet...
...switch is based on a phenomenon first predicted in 1962 by a British scientist named Brian Josephson, who was only 22 at the time. While studying superconductivity,* the Cambridge graduate student determined mathematically that pairs of electrons would "tunnel" through material that is normally an electrical insulator if it is thin enough and sandwiched between two superconductors. If the flow of electrons through the insulator were kept below a certain critical value, he found, there would be no difference in voltage from one side of the insulator to the other. (At normal temperatures, an electric current never flows unless there...