Word: volts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alarm Clock. When Hunt and crew had a rat sleeping peacefully, they recorded its heartbeats on an electrocardiograph (300-350 beats per min.). Then they squirted it with a beam of silent, invisible, 250,000-volt X rays. In about 12 sec., the rat woke up, sometimes going into a violent "state of alarm." Its heartbeat would speed up too. But if the radiation continued for long, the rat would go to sleep again, like a human grown accustomed to a steady night-time sound...
What wrought the change in Szilard's case was a four-week series of treatments with 2,000,000-volt X rays at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital. His convalescence was supervised, as is his current care while he lives at a Washington hotel, by his personal physician, Dr. Gertrud Weiss-who is also his wife. With the same realism that he showed when his prospects were poorest, Dr. Szilard now says: "I have not been in a hospital since I left Memorial. But I don't want to mislead people into thinking I am cured, because...
...million electron volt Harvard Cyclotron has recently treated malignant tumors in four patients, and early results indicate that the Cyclotron may be instrumental in the development of cures for cancer, diabetes, and Parkinson's disease...
...Stuart is a boxy but commodious fiber-glass creation driven by a 4-h.p. motor, will hold two adults, two kids, and lots of groceries. It will go 40 miles at a safe-and-sane 35 m.p.h. on its small boat-trailer-size wheels, and its eight 6-volt batteries may be recharged overnight simply by plugging the whole thing into the garage socket. The cost of operation (including depreciation on the car itself) is estimated by Stuart to be around 4? a mile, as opposed to about 8? a mile for the standard gasoline compact...
NEAR, standing for National Emergency Alarm Repeater, is a home warning system still under study. In NEAR, a 240-cycle signal carried on regular 110-volt power lines would set small buzzers, plugged into alternating current outlets, to squawking. NEAR units could be installed in each home for a few dollars, might give warning to all within one minute after the discovery of an oncoming attack...