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For passing, Dr. Zworykin provides diagonal cables that lead from one lane to another. When a fast car treads on the tail of a slower car, one of the diagonals shunts it to the left-hand lane. Another shunts it back again when it is safely past. So far, Dr...
Zworykin admits that it will be a long time before U.S. superhighways are made automatic, but he sees no insurmountable obstacles. First stage would be simple guiding cables, which would have considerable value when visibility is poor. Next would come the buried transmitters to warn of obstacles on the road...
"It was not until the middle of the 19th century that builders fully understood and applied the use of steel in tension on a calculated basis . . . Roebling began to hang the Brooklyn Bridge on a spider web of steel cables in 1868 . . . Major William LeBaron Jenny designed the first true...
The Ship. As the Sverdlov loomed through the early morning mist, a hum of excitement spread through the dockyard city of Portsmouth: she was the first Russian warship to visit Britain since the war. Old hands quickly noted that she was trim and tidy, that she was correctly dressed overall...
So that he can spend more time with "my mistress, sugar," he has fitted out a penthouse over his office. Even when he travels, as he often does, to Europe, the U.S. and South America, Lobo deals in sugar day & night by international telephone. "This business needs me," he says...