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...Moscow time, the Lunik emitted a cloud of sodium vapor. It was too low in the east for good observation in Western Europe, but several Soviet observatories reported seeing it. The cloud gave an accurate check of the course, and presently the Russians announced that Lunik II would actually hit the moon at 12:05 a.m. on Monday Moscow time (5:05 p.m. E.D.T. Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Moon Blow | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...being sold by Pol-Air, Inc., Morgan City, La. The device is cooled by a copper coil that is connected to the car's carburetor and gas line. The carburetor draws gas from the gas line through the coil, where it changes from a liquid to a vapor and in the process absorbs heat, then is fed back to the carburetor. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Aug. 24, 1959 | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Liquid hydrogen is rugged stuff to fool with, so cold (boiling point: -252.7° C. at atmospheric pressure) that steel cracks on sudden contact. It must be elaborately refrigerated or it will flash into vapor. Even a small leak is highly explosive. The 150 gal. in Berkeley's chamber have the explosive power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 72 Inches of Bubbles | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...tiny, tubular quartz lamp billed as "one of the most important basic improvements in incandescent lamps since Thomas Edison." The pencil-shaped tube lasts twice as long and is one two-hundredth the size of a standard industrial lighting lamp, does not grow dim throughout its life. Iodine vapor in the bulb prevents the formation of blackening carbon on the inside; the lamp's high operating temperature incinerates dirt that touches the outside. Because of their small size, the new lamps can be used to throw exact lighting patterns for show windows, building facades, sports fields, airports. They will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jun. 22, 1959 | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...seven minutes. Last week Project Mercury researchers reported they had found a solution to the problem. The spaceman's body heat will be absorbed by a circulating water system. The water will boil, and the steam will be vented into space in a long, thin, man-made vapor trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Earth & Space | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

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