Word: volts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
...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...