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...pick up the feeble echo, the receiving apparatus had to be extra sensitive. Although the transmitter shot out 4,000 watts of power, echoing back from the moon came only 9/10,000,000,000,000,000 of a watt-that was strong enough to be received clearly. On the visual "scope" the echo showed as a wiggle in a luminous blue line, and could be heard as a brief hum. It came at the right time for a 450,000-mile round trip-about 2.4 seconds after the outgoing pulse...
...inch water glass, a 40-watt light bulb, a snuff box, a fish hook, ink bottles, a lemon, an apple, ox horns, chicken bones, a frozen pig's tail, a cold cream jar, whiskey glasses, an iron...
...Both the station and the man were outstanding, and both he and the station felt lucky. The manager was young (35), shrewd Lieut. Colonel John S. Hayes, who built and bossed the crackajack American Forces Network in Europe. The station was the New York Times' s 10,000-watt WQXR, which devotes 80% of its broadcast day to "the best in music," the rest to frequent news and infrequent commercials...
Well, things have certainly picked up for us old beat-up, guinea happy, flip chasin', atabrine eatin', female hungry, geisha huntin' G.I.s. I'm writing this by the light of a 200-watt reading lamp, on an oaken writing desk, surrounded by large double windows (with glass in them) and sliding doors. This morning I awoke to find an olive-skinned, black-haired, shy young vision of Oriental loveliness, with broom in hand, busily engaged in giving my room, which I share with only two other liberators, a working over. When she became aware...
...progress in radar was paralleled by a team of British physicists under Sir Robert A. Watson-Watt. (The British first called it "radiolocation," later accepted the U.S. word "radar."*) There were also the Germans, who were known to be experimenting with radar as early as 1935; the Japs, whose physicist Hide-tsugu Yagi was working on basic shortwave studies long before the war (the U.S. Navy called its early radar antennae "yagis"); the French, who in 1936 installed on the Normandie a crude radar for detecting icebergs...