Word: volts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...produced by a plasma* which responds instantly to magnetic forces, thus permitting its particles to be accelerated to extremely high speeds. At the heart of the engine are two aluminum electrodes, 8 in. in diameter and about 1 in. apart. The electrodes are connected to a charged, 3,000-volt capacitor, but as long as the gap between them is a high vacuum (the engine works only in the vacuum of space), no spark of electricity can arc across. Every second or so, when a small amount of nitrogen gas is allowed to leak into the gap, a spark flashes...
...eyed citizens of Bolzano, a quiet, German-speaking town in Italy's Alpine province of South Tyrol, trembled wonderingly out of bed and into the streets. At the second blast, an eerie bluish light flashed over the mountains as a high-tension tower toppled and its 220,000-volt cables short-circuited. For two hours the bombs continued to go off around Bolzano. The stunned Tyroleans slowly realized what had happened. Germanic extremists, who had long been agitating for more local autonomy, had declared private war on the Italian state...
...volt electrons of ordinary microscopes are not powerful enough to penetrate the two layers of film and the plump, water-filled bodies of healthy bacteria. So the upper part of Dupouy's sphere is filled with a powerful accelerator that delivers a beam of million-volt electrons. They are tricky and dangerous to handle, but carefully measured bursts of them pass through living bacteria and make meaningful shadow pictures of their insides, magnified 25,000 times. The bacteria are little the worse for their experience. Dupouy testified almost affectionately that when they are taken out of the formidable microscope...
Silent Mower. An electric lawnmower for near-soundless yard cutting on suburban Sunday mornings is being turned out by Pennsylvania's West Point Products Corp. It starts at the push of a button, is powered by a twelve-volt car battery, can be recharged in 48 hours by simply plugging into a house circuit. Price for a three-speed, self-propelled, 21-in-reel mower: $190. For a rotary, manual-push model...
Transistorized TV. A portable all-transistor TV set that operates on home current or a self-contained rechargeable 12-volt battery was announced by Tokyo's Sony Corp. The set weighs only 13 Ibs., measures 6¼ in. by 8 in., with a rectangular screen running 8 in. diagonally. Sony will start selling the set in Japan in March, plans to export soon after. Japanese price: about...