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could be used outdoors."
Further, Baker sees the opportunity to observe the behavior
d molecules in space as affording what he calls "a new test tube
br science. ln these vast spatial reactors, molecular collisions
le occurring orders of magnitude slower than they have ever
leen observed on earth-they are meters apart. So you have a
nodel, magic situation where pair collisions take long times, you
can observe the individual orientation of the molecules in space;
rtd these are just the things we want to know in studying the
rtability of the hardware of the Bell System, in studying ways to
rake new components, in studying the interaction of charges
rrd molecules in the electronics and circuitry of the System.
3o here is a whole new game."
A whole new game some 40 or more years after Karl Jansky's
fscovery; the frail young man's legacy to Bell Laboratories, to
and to the world was large indeed.
-bnce,
Merry-go-round, ln the early 1930s, Karl Jansky built this
rotating radio antenna to document sources of
statlc on transatlantic telephone lines.
Jansky with the rotatable antenna he
used in studies ol atmospheric noises
that interfered wilh overseas radio telephone
service. Among the noises, in 1933, he
discovered a mysterious one coming
from the center ol the Milky Way. His
discovery led to the new science of radio
astronomy.