Word: watt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rush of orders for its 13 diesel-powered models. Since the blackout, Westinghouse has sold to utilities about 40 gas-driven turbines to use as starters for their big generators. And for the homeowner afraid of the dark, Studebaker Corp.'s Onan division sells a suitcase-sized, 500-watt generator that is powered by home-heating oil. It is large enough to power a few lights and a radio, costs...
...went black in only two heavily populated western sections. The Lake Placid, N.Y., resort area was saved by the grandiloquently named Paul Smith's Electric Light & Power & Railroad Co. A local generator kept New Haven, Conn., aglow. Such isolated Massachusetts communities as Holyoke, Braintree and Taunton never lost a watt, and windswept Nantucket Island, 30 miles off Cape Cod, kept going with a private power system installed...
...Smith went to South Africa to take a business course at Rhodes University, then returned home to Selukwe, where he fell in love with an attractive young schoolteacher named Janet Watt. They were married in 1948, and Smith decided that he would enter politics. "I thought he was crackers," recalls his wife, "but no one can influence my husband once he has made up his mind...
...lots of fluorescent lights, all of which have built-in ducts that trap over 60% of their heat.* The ducts also collect the heat produced by the students' bodies-which is surprisingly high. One average-size incumbent 15-year-old throws off more heat than a 100-watt bulb. Recovered and recirculated by fans, this heat from the lighting and the building's occupants has proved more than enough to keep the building warm even when the outside thermometer reads 18°. The excess is transferred to heating coils in two 12,000-gal. water tanks. When...
Because of the great distance and the craft's weak 10½-watt radio transmitter, it took 8 hr. 35 min. to transmit the coded data that made up one picture. And by the time the signals reached a tracking station, they were no stronger than one-billionth of one-billionth of a watt. Those faint whispers were picked up by big-dish antennas and amplified a thousand times as they were piped through a liquid helium maser. So slow was the transmission rate that no complete picture could be received at any one tracking station. As the Earth...