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Canadians need no computer to know that small European cars are wheeling the nation's imported car dealers down the highway to prosperity. Compact little Volkswagens, Austins, Simcas and British Fords scoot buglike along the roads, sit -and fit-snugly in many a next-door neighbor's garage...
Earth-Angled. In inertial navigation, every motion of a ship in any direction is accounted for and automatically computed to give precise distance traveled. The key instrument is an accelerometer -a container holding a weight that can move, against springs, toward one end or the other. The weight acts like...
The charm of this structure for geneticists comes from its variability. Each step between the helices can be made of either pair of bases pointing in either direction. If the spirals should be pulled apart (the chemical bonds between bases are weak), each spiral would be left with the four...
To tie the entire system together, CAA plans a series of giant computers at major traffic centers to keep track of each plane, guide it safely along the airways. By mid-1959 CAA hopes to have computer centers at New York, Washington, Boston, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago and Detroit, add new...
How It Began. In San Jose, Calif., after International Business Machines Corp. installed a large electronic computer in a new plant, Mathematician William Mitchell equipped it with a glass-enclosed Chinese abacus and a sign reading: "In case of emergency, break glass."