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Low & High Tests. If the Russians were trying to hide their tests, they would have held them underground. Underground explosions send no ordinary radio signals or barometric waves. They are invisible to radar, and they scatter no telltale fallout. But they do create powerful earth waves that travel in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Detecting the Tests | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

With the help of the Canadian Department of Transport, the automatic weather station will be placed this month on uninhabited Graham Island in the Canadian Arctic. It is expected to work unattended for at least two years, transmitting by radio every three hours the temperature, barometric pressure, wind direction and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Magic Fire | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

Through the thin, -104°F. air he fell freely, first face down, then atumble, then on his back-1,000, 5,000, 10,000 ft.-reaching a flashing terminal velocity of about 450 m.p.h. As he plummeted, he took readings on his instruments, and with cool self-possession, tape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Descent to the Future | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

*On ejection, the cable that yanks the seat free also trips a safety lever that sets the parachute's aneroid barometer into action. As the pilot falls, the increasing pressure compresses the metal diaphragm of the barometer. When the barometer records a pressure normal to 10,000 feet (the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Nightmare Fall | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Last week the Weather Bureau was readying an array of new gadgets to track a storm like a beagle after a bunny. Stimulated by the many reports of large flocks of birds trapped in the eye of a hurricane, unable to escape against the strong winds blowing toward its center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Watch That Hurricane | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

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