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Festooned with a maze of cables, wires, tanks, cylinders, hand-wheels, steel support frames bolted to the ceiling, a control board studded with dials, the underground laboratory looked something like the inside of a submarine. The Svedberg centrifuge's 7-in. disk rotates at 60,000 r.p.m., has a peripheral speed of about 24 miles a minute, one-third greater than that of Earth at the Equator. Particles whirled at that rate are subjected to a force 250,000 times that of gravity. In short spurts the centrifuge can rotate up to 160,000 r.p.m., exaggerating gravity...
...William Cramp & Sons. Because St. Joseph Lead Co., in which his family had a fat block of stock, had exhausted the best of its ores, Crane at 40 reluctantly abandoned the sea, plunged into a study of mining methods in the U. S. and South America, invented an underground shovel, became head of the company, worked low-grade lead ores at a profit, using one-third the former man power. At 56 he found time to design the America's Cup yacht Weetamoe. The same year he got a D.Sc. degree from Colorado School of Mines. Now white-haired...
...aptitude for cracking Capitalist safes before the 1917 Revolution was but one reason that his colleagues in the Bolshevist underground organization called tough, resilient Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili "Stalin" (Steel...
...members of the Court to go out of mourning for her late husband, paid a visit to London's famed Adelphi Terrace, home of many a great British writer, soon to be razed for an office-building development. Escorted by the real-estate agent, she poked among the underground arches where Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist imagined a thieves' kitchen...
...telephone messages or 20 to 40 telegrams simultaneously and was primarily designed for such purposes. But it can also handle a radio frequency band 1,000,000 cycles wide-enough to carry the fluctuating light & shadow of television. The possibility therefore arose of "piping" television from city to city underground. A. T. & T. applied to the Federal Communications Commission for permission to install an experimental coaxial pipe between Manhattan and Philadelphia. Western Union, Postal Telegraph and certain cinemagnates objected, raised a monopoly scare. The Commission ruled that A. T. & T. might install the cable only under heavy restrictions. At these...