Word: weather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wire service Teletype machine, so familiar a fixture in the newsroom, may soon invade the American home. Bulletins, weather reports, stock quotations, feature stories-all the 24-hours-a-day stream of news is being made available for community antenna television systems by Telemation, Inc., a small Salt Lake City electronics firm...
Under its agreement with Telemation, A.P. will install the machines and maintain them. To date, A.P. has signed up some 30 C.A.T.V. systems. Whether people will continue to watch, once the novelty has worn off, is a matter of speculation. "C.A.T.V. systems are already using channels for nothing but weather reports," says Fred Strozier, A.P. broadcast-membership executive. "If people will sit and look at a silent weather channel, they will certainly look at a news channel...
Robert Leighton, took aerial photos of a volcanic area in the Mojave Desert and degraded them to Mariner's 200-line resolution. They practiced on weather pictures taken by Tiros satellites and on rocket photos of the Earth. They pored over purposely fuzzed-up pictures of relief maps of Southern California. By matching their conclusions with the known features of the areas they studied, they learned how to judge distances and sizes, how to distinguish contours from shadows and reflections...
...moon and beyond. It is the experiments that the occupants of a MOL will perform during its prolonged flight that are remarkable. As an Air Force project, MOL has definite military goals. It could be used for spy-in-the-sky surveillance, nuclear-test detection, target reconnaissance and weather reporting. But equipped with cameras, radar and infra-red sensors, a manned space station could have endless peaceful uses. It could map ocean currents, help locate underground water, experiment with modifying the weather, and take improved pictures of the stars and planets. At San Francisco, for example, International Business Machines engineers...
...level bombing in bad weather is a deadly job. The same radar used to find targets can help a plane to navigate safely past hills or mountains, but it may also alert defenders equipped to pick up its blips. Navigation with the help of ground-based radio-beam transmitters can rarely be counted on over enemy territory. What pilots need is a system that will lead them along their chosen route without signaling their presence to enemy trackers...