Did they invent the Turbo Encabulator also? Sounds like one author wrote both of the descriptions. 😂
The original machine has a base-plate of prefabulated aluminite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two main spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-bovoid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdlespring on the "up" end of the grammeters.
— John Hellins Quick, "The turbo-encabulator in industry",
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Tracking the ESSA-2 Weather Satellite
John Macphail and Charles Taggart set their Crown SS800 data recorder to receive 136.5 MHz image telemetry from ESSA-2 as it passes over Toronto, Canada, March 1, 1966. It was a spin-stabilized operational meteorological satellite. The 132 kg spacecraft launched from from Cape Canaveral, Florida by a Three-Stage Delta rocket on February 28, 1966 into a 113 minute, 1355×1455 km, sun-synchronous 101° inclination polar retrograde orbit. The spacecraft was an 18-sided polygon, 1.07 m in diameter by 56 cm high, made of aluminum alloy and stainless steel reinforced baseplate carrying most of the subsystems and a cover assembly (hat) then covered with 9,100 1×2 cm solar cells for charging 63 nickel-cadmium batteries. Two redundant wide-angle Automatic Picture Transmission (APT) cameras were mounted 180° apart along the side of the cylindrical craft. Projecting downward from the baseplate were a pair of crossed-dipole command reception antennas. A monopole telemetry (136.500 MHz) and tracking (136.770 MHz) antenna extended outward from the top of the cover assembly. The satellite spin rate was controlled by means of a Magnetic Attitude Spin Coil (MASC), with the spin axis maintained normal to the orbital plane (cartwheel orbit mode) to within ±1°. The MASC was a current-carrying coil mounted in the cover assembly. The magnetic field induced by the current interacted with the earth's magnetic field to provide the torque necessary to maintain a desired spin rate of 10.9 rpm. The "cartwheel" configuration of the TIROS-9 was selected as the orbital configuration for the ESSA satellites. Therefore, a camera could be pointed at some point on Earth every time the satellite rotated along its axis. The spacecraft operating system was the same as on the TIROS-9. The APT system was designed to transmit an image every 352 s, each photo covering a 5180 km˛ area with 3 km resolution. Its mission was to provide real-time pictures of cloud cover using the automatic picture transmission system. These cloud cover pictures were used by meteorologists for use in weather forecasting and analysis. ESSA-2 was able to transmit two to three images daily to individual ground stations, regardless of their location. The satellite provided useful cloud pictures for more than 4 years before the camera systems were placed in standby mode on March 20, 1970. ESSA-2 was fully deactivated on October 16, 1970. By this time the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA) was replaced by the new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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