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...Lewis J. McKesson, a former Voice engineer, testified that two 1,000,000-watt transmitters the agency was building in the U.S. were "not properly located." Both sites, he said, lie within the earth-girdling magnetic-storm belt; if located outside the belt, the transmitters would cost $18 million less to build, and require 90% less power. A Voice official named Frederick Freeman added that the contract for building one of the two transmitters had been awarded to "the least eligible of 14 bidders." Soon after Freeman testified, Voice Boss Wilson M.Compton ordered work on both projects halted...
...walls. The house has no water or sanitary facilities; the nearest public bath is six miles away, but Sabino and his wife have not visited it this year. The only sign of civilization that the second biggest tin mine in Bolivia has brought to Huanuni is a 25-watt lamp that hangs incongruously from the thatched roof...
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...