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Most of the information that reaches human consciousness is carried by light, and often the light provided by nature is not strong enough to register on human eyes. Scientists have long wanted some means of amplifying (strengthening) light without losing or distorting the information it brings. Last week Bendix Aviation Corp. demonstrated a device that amplifies light as much as 50,000 times...
...Bendix's Lumicon is a sophisticated television apparatus. It has a camera tube that views a scene, such as a dimly lighted room, and translates it into a stream of electronic signals. Then a picture tube (with 1,029 "lines" of light instead of the usual 525) turns the signals into a reproduction of the scene in front of the camera. The big difference between the Lumicon and an ordinary TV setup is that the electronic signals are strengthened enormously, making the picture on the tube much brighter than the scene that the camera is viewing...
Varied Uses. This device, an obvious outgrowth of TV techniques, has been worked on by many designers. Inventors of the Lumicon are Physicist Ralph E. Sturm and Radiologist Russell H. Morgan, who did their work at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. Bendix bought their patents and hired Sturm to perfect the Lumicon and get it into production...
General George and four other executives went out in the 1953 flare-up, forcing Hughes to move in fresh executive talent. In as general manager ten months ago went Laurence Hyland, an able onetime Bendix executive with plenty of drive to push both research and production, keep building up the staff. Since 1949, Hughes Aircraft's payroll has jumped from 750 to over 20,000; the research and development division alone has 2,000 topflight men against less than 100 seven years ago; one out of every ten scientists and engineers holds a Ph.D., one of every four...
...Flying North American F-100C Super-sabre jets, six U.S. Air Force pilots raced 2,325 miles from Victorville, Calif, to Philadelphia in the annual Bendix Trophy race. Winner: Colonel Carlos M. Talbott. Average speed: 610.7 m.p.h., well under the 652.5 m.p.h. coast-to-coast record set by an F-84F Thunderstreak jet last March...