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...
Wire-Recording Equipment and Other Electronic Instruments are Giving New Ears to Factory Men. New Accuracies in Machine and Process Industries, Made Possible by Studying and Comparing Noises, Are Speeding Production, Improving Quality, and cutting Costs...
In Wood Fabrication and in Preparing Plastics Materials for Molding, High Frequency Heating is Well into the Development Stage. The Success that Has Been Attained Bids Fair to Influence Favorably The Rapid Production of Even Large and Complicated Plastics Ports...
Electronics Has Brought to Aviation a Versatile Means of Controlling Many of the Airplane's Essential Mechanical Components. Increased Engine Efficiency, Reduced Pilot Fatigue, and Greater Safety are Some of the Worthwhile Results that Have so Far Been Obtained...
Liquefied Petroleum Gas, Because of its High Thermal Efficiency and Adaptability to Convenient Storage and Transportation, has Come to be an Important Factor in American Economy, Both Domestic and Industrial...
Comfort in Modern Passenger Trains Requires Large Quantities of Electric Power Put to Work in Many and Diverse Ways. On Most Trains, this Needed Energy Is Produced by Cor-Mounted Generators Driven by the Axles...
Modern Permanent Magnetic Alloys, Two to Ten Times More Powerful Than Former Materials, are Responsible for Compact, Efficient War-Time Energy-Converting Devices and Will be the Key Elements in Many Post-War Electrical and Electronic Products...
By Harnessing Forces that Act Outside the Bounds of Human Senses, and Applying Electronic Amplification, Chemical Control Methods Have Been Highly Refined. The Infra-Red Technique is Not Yet in Wide Use, but Successful Results So Far Point to Broad Future Fields...
Pipelines and Other Underground Metallic Structures are Constantly Subject to Corrosion Caused by Galvanic Currents. Control of Such Corrosion Can be Obtained by the Use of Buried Anodes Which Set Up Counter Potentials...
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