Word: watt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These properties could make possible extraordinarily small, efficient equipment. "We can imagine a data-storage file," says Morton, "holding 15 million coded bits of information in one or two cubic inches and run by forty-thousandths of a watt of power." The same job now would require a closet full of equipment and hundreds of watts...
...Kenneth E. F. Watt, 40, is a professor of zoology at the University of California in Davis, one of the world's major ecology training centers. He is also an activist. "How else can you tab a guy who is out making speeches every night and spending every spare minute writing articles?" A systems analyst who pioneered the use of computers for solving environmental problems, Watt is currently directing a $174,000 Ford Foundation-financed study of California to examine the effects of population growth on urban transportation, pollution, public health and welfare, natural resources and law enforcement...
...accepted the astronauts' voices as well as 900 other signals-telemetric data on heartbeats, for example, pressure readings in the cabin, data from the computers-and imposed them on a single "carrier" frequency of 2,282.5 megahertz. An amplifier increased the signal's power from half a watt to 20 watts, the strength of a small ham-radio transmitter. The 26-in. dish antenna, perched atop the LM, then beamed the signal to earth...
...passenger was still in the car. I was unsuccessful in the attempt." As for his failure to report the accident, he maintained that he "was exhausted and in a state of shock." Kennedy's explanation was supported by his family physician, Dr. Robert D. Watt. Examining the Senator at his home following his return, Watt found that Kennedy had a "slight concussion at the back of his head," gave him a sedative to relieve the pain...
...Versailles Treaty did not even succeed in constraining Germany. The Allies developed such intense feelings of guilt about it that when, in the 1930s, Hitler began his reconquest of territory, they felt he was only redressing Germany's wrongs. Post-World War I Germany, as Watt makes clear, served as a most chilling example, very relevant today, of what happens when ruthless poltics are freely practiced: polarization; violence that feeds upon itself; final rule by savagery. Whether it comes from left or right makes little difference to he victims...