Word: volts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Instruments Corp. of Hempstead, L.I., has miniaturized the ECG with 24 transistors. The result is a box that is crammed with components. But it is little more than 8 in. square and less than 6 in. thick, weighing only 10 Ibs., and it can be plugged into any 110-volt AC line. It makes its diagnostic tracings on standard ECG paper and records all the standard ECG information...
...volt Autostereo models, priced from $129 up, made and distributed in 14 states by former Used-Car Tycoon Earl "Mad Man" Muntz of Los Angeles. Designed only for playback with special tape cartridges, they take any prerecorded material from the Muntz Music Library. Senator Barry Goldwater bought one from his son Mike, who holds the Phoenix franchise. Comedian Jerry Lewis has cartridge copies made of scripts, learns his lines by Autostereo on the way to work. Sales have reached epidemic proportions, claims a Muntz spokesman. "We started selling to Continentals. Then we went to Cadillacs, Buicks, Fords and Chevrolets...
When Dictator Juan Peron was in power, the Cardosos were notorious for winning "confessions" from the regime's prisoners. Their prize persuader was the picana electrica, an "electric needle" that delivered a 12,000-volt jolt. Applied to the lips, soles of the feet or genitals, the picana made the victim convulse with shrieking pain, while leaving no marks. "With the picana" Juan Cardoso once boasted, "you can extract in one session confessions that would have taken four days of sissified questioning...
Last week a panel of scientists selected by the Atomic Energy Commission and the President's Science Advisory Committee urged an ambitious, 18-year program of big-accelerator acquisition. The proposed shopping list: > A $240 million proton accelerator with 200-billion-eIectron-volt energy for Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley...
...Fermi Institute and the off-campus Argonne National Laboratory, which it runs for the AEC on a $79 million budget (paid by AEC), compared with $68 million for the university itself. To help fill the Midwest gap in research and defense contracts. Beadle counts on a new 12.5 billion-volt synchrotron at Argonne to lure physicists. Last month NASA began building a new space lab adjoining the Fermi Institute...