Word: watt
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Divorced. Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, 60, principal developer of radar (patents filed in 1935); by his onetime research assistant, Lady Watson-Watt; after 36 years of marriage; in London...
...away, but for those who remember three hours of squint and strain in Fogg during exam periods past, the delay cannot be too long. The lighting, designed especially for courses using slides, features a brilliantly illuminated stage, and overhead spotlight fixtures, equipped with what seem to be sixty-watt bulbs. The paltry number of foot-candles falling from above usually get lost in the dirty greenish decor...
...transistor's greatest advantage is its lack of a heated filament. Most of the currents that pulse through electronic apparatus are extremely small, but when they are amplified or relayed by a conventional vacuum tube, its filament consumes a full watt. It is the same, says Dr. Ralph Bown, vice president in charge of research at Bell Laboratories, as "sending a twelve-car freight train, locomotive and all, to carry a pound of butter." A transistor gets along with a millionth of a watt, not enough in most cases to make it faintly warm. The Bell men take...
...council of colleges has been enlarged by the inclusion of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. A non commercial educational broadcasting station has been set up to carry on and amplify the work already began. The new station, WGBH, has built a 25,000-watt frequency modulated transmitter in one room of the meteorological observatory on Great Blue Hill, and maintains studio in Symphony Hall, Boston...
Last week Watson-Watt, now "Sir Robert," already knighted as one of the architects of victory in the Battle of Britain, got another reward: ?50,000 ($140,000), tax free, from the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors. Other British contributors to the development of radar shared ?37,950. British scientists agreed that the decision was a fair one. It had been reached after long deliberation by a seven-man commission of lawyers, scientists and businessmen, presided over by Lord Justice Cohen, Lord of Appeal...