TSI a few more Notes

Tue Mar 4 02:33:02 CST 2003

Tim is in a washing machine looking at his wart. 

The washing machine served as a space capsule just one
year ago (SL, TSI.146).  

Suggestion therapy: Freud, Psychotherapy, the use of
mental rather than physical means to achieve
behavioral or attitudinal change, employs suggestion,
persuasion, education, reassurance, insight, and
hypnosis.

Modern psychotherapeutic methods for influencing
patients directly include giving advice, persuasion,
suggestion, and training in specific curative
activities. Behaviour therapies are aimed at
correcting specific pathological emotional states or
behaviour patterns by appropriate countermeasures.

They are based largely on the conditioned-reflex
theory of I.P. Pavlov and on other theories of
learning.

Grover is not quite sure about the uses of LIQUID
nitrogen. He has trouble with his sodium bombs and he
has been reading Tom Swift books. 

Liquid Nitrogen:

Chemically, nitrogen gas is quite inert, especially
at ordinary temperatures. Owing to its inertness,
nitrogen gas is utilized in the chemical industry as
a diluent or as a blanket to exclude oxygen and
moisture. The low temperature (and inertness) of
nitrogen in the liquid state make it suitable for
freeze-drying food and as a refrigerant when
transporting perishable commodities. Liquid
nitrogen also has proved useful in cryogenic
research.

Use in Rockets and explosives. 

Goddard's experiments inspired another aviation
pioneer, Charles Lindbergh,
who, on May 20-21, 1927, became the first person to
ever cross the Atlantic
Ocean in an airplane. Lindbergh helped find support
for Goddard's experiments and corresponded with him
throughout the 1930's. Goddard went on to test rockets
pressurized by liquid nitrogen and on March 28, 1935
launched the first rocket with gyroscopic controls. It
flew to a height of 4,800 feet and 13,000 feet
downrange at a speed of 550 MPH. 

Germany V2 and Braun

Since the test grounds near Berlin
had become too small, a large
military development facility was
erected at the village of Peenemünde
in northeastern Germany on the
Baltic Sea, with Dornberger as the
military commander and Braun as
the technical director. 

Liquid-fueled rocket aircraft
and jet-assisted takeoffs were successfully
demonstrated, and the long-range ballistic missile
A-4 and the supersonic anti-aircraft missile
Wasserfall were developed. The A-4 was
designated by the Propaganda Ministry as V-2,
meaning Vengeance Weapon 2. By 1944 the level
of technology of the rockets and missiles being
tested at Peenemünde was many years ahead of that
available in any other country.

And so on....

Tim's mother uses the telephone to terrorize her
neighbors.  She uses a Princess telephone. 

Grover is boy genius inventor. There are several in
this story. 

The Princess Telephone

Princess telephone

Dreyfuss, Henry

 b. March 2, 1904, New York City
 d. Oct. 5, 1972, South Pasadena, Calif., U.S.

U.S. industrial designer noted for the number and
variety of his pioneering designs for modern
products. 

At the age of 17 Dreyfuss was designing sets for
stage presentations at a Broadway motion-picture
theatre. In 1927 a store commissioned him to study
its merchandise from the standpoint of
attractiveness and to make drawings indicating
improvements that the manufacturers could make.
He made the study but refused to undertake the
design because he felt that the proper way to
approach design was to work directly with the
manufacturer from the start rather than to try to
improve a design after the product had been made. 

He opened his first industrial design office in 1929.
At the same time, he was an active and successful
designer of sets for the Broadway theatre. In 1930
he began designing for Bell Telephone
Laboratories, an association that resulted in the
design of a series of telephones. Other notable
designs include the interior of Super G
Constellation aircraft for the Lockheed Aircraft
Corporation and the interior of the ocean liner
"Independence." 

Dreyfuss designs stress the user of the product. He
said that "when the point of contact between the
product and people becomes a point of friction,
then the industrial designer has failed." His book
The Measure of Man (1960, rev. ed. 1967)
contained extensive data on the human body and its
movements. His approach to industrial design is
described in his book Designing for People (1955,
2nd ed. 1967). From 1963 to 1970 he was
associated with the University of California at Los
Angeles. On Oct. 5, 1972, Dreyfuss, along with his
wife, Doris, died of carbon monoxide poisoning in
a car in the garage of their home. 

80N Etienne Cherdlu

Lenoir, (Jean-Joseph-)
Étienne

 b. Jan. 12, 1822, Mussy-la-Ville, Belg.
 d. Aug. 4, 1900, La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire, Fr.

Belgian inventor who devised the first
commercially successful internal-combustion
engine. 

Lenoir's engine was a converted double-acting
steam engine with slide valves to admit the air-fuel
mixture and to discharge exhaust products. A
two-stroke cycle engine, it used a mixture of coal
gas and air. Though only about 4 percent efficient in
fuel consumption, it was a smooth-running and
durable machine (some machines were in perfect
condition after 20 years of continuous operation),
and by 1865 more than 400 were in use in France
and 1,000 in Britain, used for such low-power jobs
as pumping and printing. 

In 1862 Lenoir built the first automobile with an
internal-combustion engine. He had adapted his
engine to run on liquid fuel and with his vehicle
made a 6-mile (10-kilometre) trip that required two
to three hours. His other inventions include an
electric brake for trains (1855), a motorboat using
his engine (1886), and a method of tanning leather
with ozone. 

The engine shows up later in the tale. 

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