Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shooting electrons through an object and bringing them to a magnified focus on the far side. The object shows as a shadowed picture because some parts of it stop more electrons than others. Since electrons are scattered by air, the interior of the instrument must be an almost perfect vacuum, which would dry up and kill almost instantly all living bacteria...
...great role in it. Above all. Ben Franklin was a man of the 18th century Enlightenment, with its indiscriminate, omnivorous, ravenous appetite for all facts about all nature. Every blessed thing on earth (Ben had little theological curiosity) he wrote about, asked about, or collected facts about-vacuum jars, the "humors" produced by yellow fever, machines for producing static electricity (fatal to some rats), systems of government and ventilation, the geology of Pennsylvania, the weather, the making of glass, the weaving of cloth, and the proper way to build a fort. When he was not advertising muskets for sale...
Britons were comfortably reassured last week that they never had it so good. Two families out of three, said an official government handbook, have a television set and vacuum cleaner, one in three has a washing machine, one in eight a refrigerator. Half the population spend their holidays away from home, and half the younger generation attend the movies once a week at 50? a seat. One-quarter of the adult population either play in or watch a football (soccer) or cricket match every week. All this, plus the superior feeling that one has just for being English...
...that found a use for what had previously been a scientific parlor stunt: the use of silicon and germanium as a photoelectric device. Along with his partners, Shockley won a Nobel Prize for turning hunks of germanium into the first transistors, the educated little crystals that are fast replacing vacuum tubes in the country's booming electronics industry...
...letters show that Molly Bawn bewitched, bothered, and bewildered Shaw, but they do not wholly show why. He resisted her coquetry, but he could not resist her ignorance, the last temptation of the learned. His mind rushed in to fill that mental vacuum. That is why the Eliza Doolittles of this world are always snaring the Professor Higginses...