Word: volts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 1 side LP). Next to her lurid Salome, red-haired Bulgarian Soprano Welitch gets her biggest hand at the Met in the role of the vengeance-seeking Donna Anna. A lesser man than the dashing Don would wilt before the fury of this thousand-volt voice. Recording : excellent...
With a flashing of 84 rectifier tubes and a chugging of six great electromagnets, the world's biggest (300 million volt) betatron started operating last week at the University of Illinois. Betatrons look something like cyclotrons, but instead of spinning protons or heavier particles, they spin lightweight electrons...
...fire yesterday virtually destroyed Princeton University's $400,000 cyclotron. The cause of the blaze, which gutted nearly all of the 18,000,000 volt machine, could not be determined...
...flicked photometer, developed from a standard device long used by eye doctors, is built around a six-volt bulb set in a revolving cylinder. In one side of the cylinder a window is cut to show a flashing light like a miniature lighthouse. The patient looks at the light through opalescent glass. If his retina and brain are getting a normal supply of blood and oxygen, the normal subject should see the flicker effect when the cylinder revolves as fast as 45 times a second. But if the eye's arteries are narrowed, the oxygen-starved retina loses sensitivity...