Word: lithium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First master of Churchill College will be Sir John Cockcroft, founder and head of Britain's atomic research center at Harwell. His qualifications are impressive: in 1932, while working at Cambridge under Lord Rutherford, he and Physicist E.T.S. Walton earned a Nobel Prize for pioneer work in splitting lithium atoms. Behind Sir Winston and Sir John in the project are many of Britain's industrial leaders, who have given most of the $8,000,000 already collected toward the $11 million the college is expected to cost. (U.S. firms have also made contributions, and Sir Winston has given...
...welding the protectorates of Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia to the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia. The Central Africa Federation (pop. 7,450,000) is the world's second largest exporter of copper, fourth largest of tobacco-a land dotted with modern cities and rich in asbestos, coal, lithium, chrome and cobalt. But in the stretch of the Zambesi River Valley, soon to be flooded by the Kariba Dam, the Stone Age Tonga tribe still wear porcupine quills in their noses, and in Northern Rhodesia, Barotseland is regularly plagued by gruesome ritual murders. In the whole federation there...
...could ride "outside" them in an outer hull filled with oil. Like the thin steel of the bathyscaphe's gasoline float, which feels no appreciable pressure, the sub's outer hull need not be thick and pressurized. It could be made of lightweight aluminum or lithium for greater speed...
Massive Concentrations. Fortnight ago the U.S. announced that it had solved the re-entry problem for ballistic missiles, but Aleksandr Nesmeyanov claimed the same thing for his own country back in 1956. The Russians set off the first lithium isotope H-bomb, plan an atom-powered airplane, have the largest fleet of floating oceanography laboratories, now intend to build the world's biggest (220 in.) telescope. Beneath such tangible accomplishments-the hardware showpieces of science-lies a vast network of pure and applied research that is as energetic as any to be found...
...quantity of oxygen he would enjoy at sea level. During launching and reentry, the space pilot will have his pressure suit inflated. In relaxed, straightaway flight, he will be able to deflate his suit, open his visor and rely on cabin air. The air will be filtered, probably through lithium hydride, to remove carbon dioxide and excess water vapor from breath and sweat. It will also be cooled and deodorized...