Stories by John Markus

Installed for a Wide Variety of Applications Throughout the Entire Metals Industry, Electronic Controlling and Measuring Devices Have Gone Far Toward Removing the Variable Human Factor From Many Production Processes

Reducing Years To Minutes, an Electronic Analyzer Permits Engineers To Review Over and Over the Productive Life of an Oil Pool, Testing Various Operating Techniques. Data so Obtained -- Unfailing Predictions of How a Pool Will React to Any Given Circumstances -- Enable Production Men to Extract the Greatest Amount of Oil Most Efficiently

Machine and Tool Jamming, in Addition to Endangering the Operator, Can Cause No End of Costly Destruction. But by Application of Simple Electronic Circuits, These Mishaps Can Be Virtually Eliminated

Vibration Effects, Sometimes Revealed by Structural Failures, and Always Hard to Evaluate In Design, Are Accurately and Safely Tested by Electromagnetic Vibrators. With These Units, Forces of Controlled Amplitude and Frequency are Conveniently Used on Critical Members

Jumbled Alloy Stocks and Parts can Now be Re-Identified by Using the Small Current Generated when Dissimilar Metals Rub Together. Direct-Reading Spectrometers Speed Analysis, Cut Down Costly Furnace Time

Many Hand Operations in Wiring Various Electrical and Electronic Mechanisms Can be Eliminated by the Use of Sprayed Metal Coatings, Pre-Formed and Welded Harnesses, and Metallic Paints Applied Through Silk Screens. Costs Can be Reduced and Efficiency Increased

Electronic Heating to Set Glued Joints Moves Wood-Products Assembly into the Mass-Production Class. Marked by Uniform Heat Throughout the Joint, High-Frequency Techniques Slash "Clamped-Up" Time, Cure Interior Glue Lines Without Danger of Over-Curing Near the Surface

Instantaneous Direction-Finding Equipment, Perfected for Anti-Submarine Operations, Will Simplify Sea and Air Navigational Problems

Sub-Surface Flaws are Revealed and Their Location and Size Determined by Non-Destructive Inspection with Supersonic Frequencies Formerly Used to Trace Submarines. Electronic Mine-Detectors, Also War Products, May be Ideal for Scouting Pipe and Cable Laying Projects

New Super X-Ray Generator Makes Possible Transmutation of Elements and Opens New Fields for Extended Research in Nuclear Physics

Much of the Enthusiastic but Misguided Publicity Given to Electronics May Prove a Boomerang to Acceptance of Really Worthwhile Developments. Uses of Electronics, Especially in Manufacturing Techniques, are Almost Unlimited, but Require careful and Responsible Development

Radio Adds to Safety at Sea in Many Ways. Radio Buoys Mark Channels; Radar is in the Offing, Radio-Telephones Help to Conquer Weather Hazards, Automatic Alarms Pick Up Distress Signals and Warn of Fire. Other Marine Uses of Electronics are in Being or Projected

Two-Way Vehicle Radio Units, the Walkie-Talkie, the Handie-Talkie, Electronic Ignition Systems, and Safety Devices are Some of the Developments that May Well be Expected to Make Commercial Vehicles More Versatile, Motor Cars More Efficient, and the Highways Safer

Less them the Span of a Single Century Covers the Lifetime of Applied Electricity. From Early Developments in an Obscure Art has Come the Science of Electronics, Taking Over Many Jobs in Industry and Doing Them Better than Ever Before. A Glimpse of the Future

In High-Frequency Heating, in Production Control and Regulation, in Lens Coating Processes, in Measurement and Analysis, in Liquid Level Control, and in a Wide Variety of Other Applications, Electronics has Established its Value as a Working Tool for the Chemical Industry

Increased Safety is The Goal of Many Uses, Direct and Indirect, of Electronics by The Railways. Flaw Detection in Rails, Materials Testing, Signal Systems, and Communications All Involve the Busy Electron

Pure and Applied Research Alike Find a Multitude of Uses for the Electronic Tube. From the Laboratory to the Workbench, Electronics is Making Possible New Accuracy in Measurement and Control. A Survey of the Field Indicates Virtually Unlimited Possibilities for Applications of Electronic Tools

Through The Use of Such Electronic Processing Agents as Radio-Wave Components, Supersonic Waves, X-Rays, Ultra-Violet Rays, and Infra-Red Rays, New Methods of Producing Desired Physical and Chemical Changes in Materials Have Been and Are Being Developed by Industry

Photocells and Tubes, Taking Up Where the Human Eye Fails, Make Possible Accurate Matching and Measuring of Colors, Leading to Applications in Many Fields. In Colorimetry Standard Colors are Eliminated and a New Scientific Tool is Provided that Promises Much for the Future

Printed Designs Moving Through a Paper-Handling Machine at High Speeds Are Invisible to the Eye, but the Phototube in a Modern Control System Sees these Designs and Makes Each Arrive at a Particular Point at a Particular Inslant. Other Industrial Uses