Word: reflectorized
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Solar Stove. A 14-lb. aluminum-coated steel disk that cooks by focusing the rays of the sun on its grill has been developed by Los Angeles' American Landscape Products, Inc. The 32-in. reflector gathers enough heat to grill a steak in twelve minutes, boil water in two minutes. Price...
...sphere may collapse, pushed to a pancake by air drag and pressure of sunlight, or drawn together by the Mylar's "memory" of the way it was folded in the launching rocket. But a flattish or crumpled shape may continue to serve for years as a good radio reflector, which is the basic job that Echo was sent up to perform...
When the Army Signal Corps bounced the first radio signal off the moon in 1946, there were high hopes that the moon would soon serve as a reflector to angle microwave radio messages around the curve of the earth. Nothing much happened for 14 years; the practical difficulties proved considerable. But last week the Navy proudly announced the establishment of man's first practical communications system by way of the moon, linking Washington and Hawaii. To celebrate the occasion, Navy officials displayed a radio photograph sent from Hawaii via the moon, of the carrier Hancock with its crew lined...