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To eliminate guesswork by eye, he invented jigs, or guides for tools, so that the outline of the product would not be marred by the fallibility of a shaky hand or imperfect vision. He made automatic stops that would disconnect the tool at the precise depth or diameter of a...
Since Vladivostok, however, the diplomats at Geneva have been deadlocked, primarily by their inability to agree on the method by which the number of MIRVs will be calculated. The nub of the problem is Moscow's new SS-18 monster missile. More than six times as powerful as the...
As it was first spelled out (TIME, June 3), O'Neill's scheme called for assembling in space large aluminum cylinders that would house self-contained communities. The cylinders would be built at the constantly moving "libration points," where the gravity of the earth and of the moon...
They made two circular patches only 11/2 inches in diameter, folded them like umbrellas and fitted them into a capsule less than a quarter of an inch in diameter. The capsule was attached to the end of a catheter inside a catheter, which was inserted into a large vein in...
The computer-generated mosaic of Betelgeuse was only 2½ in. in diameter, but detailed enough to show faint markings that the scientists think may be large hot spots in its atmosphere, perhaps gases erupting violently from the interior. Nothing on quite so dramatic a scale has been observed on...