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Radar Technology Pioneer Merrill Skolnik Dies at 94

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Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications , in 2000. While there, he taught a course on radar at Northeastern University , in Boston. in engineering from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1945 from Northwestern University , in Evanston, Ill.

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Palladium/Iron-Platinum Core/Shell Nanoparticle Catalysts Promising for Practical Fuel Cell Applications

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Chemists at Brown University have synthesized novel core and shell palladium/iron-platinum (Pd/FePt) nanoparticles that use far less platinum yet perform more efficiently and last longer than commercially available pure-platinum catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in hydrogen fuel cells.

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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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The Telechron Model Type E master station clock shown at top was used at the Tennessee Valley Authority beginning in the 1930s. According to the incredibly informative website maintained by clock enthusiast Mark Frank, the Type D existed as an internal testing device and never went into production. regulated over 95 percent of all U.S.

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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

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employees engaged in motor vehicle parts manufacturing, about one-quarter—nearly 150,000—make components for internal combustion powertrains.”. A Princeton University study estimates that somewhere between 777,000 to 5.1 Tennessee provided Ford $884 million in incentives to locate in the state, while Kentucky provided $250 million.

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