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...apartment, but she keeps getting in his hair when he wants to practice, and pretty soon he walks out. On the rebound, she marries an American piano student (John Ericson) whose childishness, interpreted by the script as glowing Americanism, illuminates dark old Europe about as effectively as a ten-watt bulb...
When they reached the bottom, the officers looked around with the beams of their 1,000-watt searchlights. "We came down on a bed of slimy sand," said Engineer Willm. "We started the motors and cruised a bit, but the water quickly became troubled. At one point we sighted a loft. sharklike creature. During most of our descent we were surrounded by myriads of luminous points, and we distinguished some weird polyps with translucent tentacles...
...distance of two feet, it reduces to one-quarter the loudness of deep-toned noise. The effect is like shutting a door against the noise. Closer to the microphone, the silencing effect is much stronger. Olson believes that a sound killer could be built that would use only one watt of current. It would be small enough to hang over the head of a sleeper to protect him from sleep-destroying noises. Another use: making conversation easy in an airplane. The deep roar of the engines would be reduced, while the higher tones of the human voice would...
...battery's strength (one millionth of a watt) is hardly one fly-power, and ninety-nine percent of the energy from the Strontium 90 is still wasted. But the battery is strong enough to work a transistor. RCA believes that its strength can be increased enough to make the battery useful. The Strontium 90 is durable; it loses only half of its power in 20 years...
...Tube. General Electric Co. announced a new 25,000-watt tube for television transmitters. Adding two of the tubes to a low-power transmitter, says G.E., can increase the area of best reception for a TV station from 20 miles to about 35 miles...