Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long process of producing this kind of major story tends to leak out, and other publications rush to get into the act. But we have full confidence in the reader's ability to differentiate between a finished design and the ones that ran into trouble in the wind tunnel...
After the transistor came of age, there was still room for the venerable vacuum tube in the burgeoning world of electronics. But even though that world is getting bigger, its parts are getting smaller. Transistors, diodes, tunnel diodes and their proliferating cousins are getting more versatile as they shrink. And the vacuum tube is slowly dying out like the ancient dinosaur. At the annual exhibition held by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Manhattan's Coliseum last week, there was scarcely a tube anywhere to be seen...
About all it takes to start a new magazine these days is an idea, a bank roll, and the kind of tunnel vision that sees nothing ahead but success. Some of the latest newcomers...
After six years of labor by 500 men, and at a cost of 17 lives and $35 million, a two-lane tunnel has been driven 3.6 miles through the rock. On the Swiss side, a 3.4-mile covered access road is lifted to the tunnel mouth by graceful concrete pylons. On the Italian side, another such road, pyloned and covered (for protection against snow and landslides) moves 6.4 miles in graceful hairpin turns down to St. Rhémy. Motorists have the impression of driving along an enormous veranda with breath-taking views of the Aosta valley...
...tunnel entrance, Swiss and Italian formalities are handled in a single customs office, and drivers pay the fares, ranging from 90? for a motorbike to $18 for a bus. The neon-lit tunnel, 14 ft. 9 in. high, rides over a pipeline that brings oil from Genoa to a Swiss refinery at Collombey. The new St. Bernard, which will be formally inaugurated by the presidents of Italy and Switzerland in June, is the world's longest auto tunnel. But not for long. The Mt. Blanc tunnel of over seven miles from France to Italy will surpass it when...