Word: watt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blades shone purple from the thin sapphire-glass coating that protects their 28,224 tiny solar cells from radiation damage. Its silvery octagonal body, made of magnesium and aluminum alloy, carried 138,000 components, including 31,696 delicate electronic components ranging from a computer to a small, lO½-watt radio transmitter. It was programmed and equipped to send to Earth a continuous stream of reports on 39 scientific and 90 engineering measurements. Crowded into the spacecraft were a new type of helium gas magnetometer to study magnetic fields, an ionization chamber and Geiger counter to measure galactic cosmic rays...
WHRB has already opened another drive, this one with a $19,000 goal, a new 3000-watt stereo transmitter to replace the present 880-watt power supply...
...model town for his 650 workers, named it Etruria for the ancient state in Italy whose rediscovered pottery helped spark the classical revival. He divided labor into a crude assembly line, carved a 93-mile canal to avoid overland transport of his fragile ware by horse, backed Inventors James Watt and Matthew Boulton, and installed one of their first industrial steam engines. His own invention, a pyrometer for measuring extremely high temperatures, helped to win him admission to the Royal Society...
...radio station, which consists of four turntables, a 50-watt transmitter, a main control panel, lots of old 78's and perhaps a tape recorder, was purchased from WHBS, the Business School's now-defunct venture into broadcasting...
...Prince Philip as they were whirled through Addis in the Emperor's Rolls-Royce, which broke down only once. At one point they transferred to the silken cab of a green and scarlet imperial coach pulled by a team of six Lippizaner horses. They dined on lamb, watt (Ethiopia's excellent meat and vegetable stew), tedj-a honey-based mead-and Taitinger champagne. The imperial touch was also present when Elizabeth journeyed over the dusty plain to Asmara, where she was greeted by dancing spearsmen and was delightfully dive-bombed by an Ethiopian army plane. The bomb load...