Word: flame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mystery and scandal it involves"-is a single gigantic organism moving in one direction: toward more consciousness. But evolution does not stop with consciousness. "In one well-marked region at the heart of the mammals, where the most powerful brains ever made by nature are to be found . . . a flame bursts forth at a strictly localized point. Thought is born...
Into the Sea. Some 40 seconds after the Atlas-Able blasted off, a flame-colored chunk fell off the rocket and hurtled into the sea. "I've never seen this before," growled a watching Air Force officer. "We're in trouble. We're in trouble. I'm sure we are." The rocket kept soaring until it disappeared from sight out over the Atlantic. But an hour later Program Director Adolph K. Thiel, somber and red-eyed, told waiting newsmen the unhappy news: "We didn't make it. Something happened. We don't know what...
Avco is working on two MHD generators. One of them will burn coal in a stream of compressed, preheated air. While passing through the flame, the air gets hotter, expands and rushes out of the furnace at high speed. A small amount of potassium chloride fed into it increases its ionization and makes it a better electrical conductor. Then the stream shoots into a hollow cone made of a heat-resisting, nonconducting material (see diagram). Electrical coils outside the cone create a strong magnetic field. As the gas speeds through, a powerful current of electricity flows across...
...goes well, the fuel burns evenly, acts as an insulator to protect the vulnerable metal casing from the searing heat of its flame. As the fuel is consumed, the cavity becomes nearly cylindrical, so when the flame reaches the outside wall not enough fuel is left to soften the metal. A well-made solid-fuel rocket engine can be touched with bare fingers just after firing on the test stand...
Kipper of the Flame. In North Haven, Conn., after dozing off while cooking a snack, Herbert Herring was smoked out of his house...