Word: ultraviolet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Work Is Fun. "Sometimes," says Houghton, "we start out with one objective and end up with something 180° in the other direction." Fifteen years ago, random research at Corning led to a photosensitive glass. Then, imprinting images with ultraviolet rays and heat, Corning tried to market the glass as decorative wall panels. The effort flopped, but curious scientists found that intricate images could be easily etched on the new glass with acid. Now it serves in miniaturized printed circuits for missile systems. With such attention to the laboratory, Corning has built a file of 100,000 different formulas...
...wasn't a needle at all. One of the group had bought a special pencil, was marking the backs of hands with symbols that would show up under the ultraviolet lamp used by a local casino to check admissions to the twist dance that night. The entrepreneur was doing a rush business. Regular admission price: $1.70. His rate...
...like mud slinging off a wheel. The more energy they have, the more they radiate away. When they have been fattened to about 1 billion electron-volts (or 1 BEV, as physicists call it), they begin to radiate visible light. At 2 BEV, they radiate the more powerful ultraviolet rays. At 4 BEV, they radiate X rays, losing several million electron-volts of energy in one trip around the ring. A time will come when no amount of energy stuffed into the electrons can exceed the energy they lose. The top practical figure is about 6 BEV, which M.I.T. Professor...
...half to form a big box with glassed-in ends. Perched on a concrete pedestal 6 ft. off the ground, the whole thing resembles nothing so much as a huge television set. The glass in the picture windows is specially treated to let in ultraviolet rays so that on sunny days the occupants can indulge in the Russian penchant for midwinter sunbathing. Looking in on such a scene, passers-by might well wonder what channel that show was coming...
Bjorklund vaccine is made by grinding up cancer cells and irradiating them with ultraviolet rays to weaken any viruses that might be present. Dr. Bjorklund and a team of 14 other researchers, including his wife, have been working with it, largely supported by research money from the U.S. Government. Two years ago, Dr. Bjorklund was on the verge of deserting his work at Sweden's State Bacteriological Laboratories when the U.S. Public Health Service came to his rescue with a three-year grant...