Astounding Science Fiction, British Edition — page 130: what you’re looking at

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128 only in science-fiction magazines as little as fifteen years ago! The last batch of commercial cata- logues I got from Dr. Pomeroy con- tains one that is still at least a little bit on the interval-of-wonder boundary. It’s from Radiation Counter Lab- oratories, Inc., of Nucleonic Park, Skokie, Illinois—their “‘RCL Illus- trated Price List No. 12.” One of the first items offered, I see, is ““A Hand- book On Small Research Nuclear Reactors for Universities & Industry,” $6.00 a copy (10% discount on 5 copies or more). hen there’s the “Oak Ridge Com- pensated Ionization Chamber, RCL Mark 17 Model 2,” a neutron-sensitive ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION instrument used in pile controls Outside dimensions 3 feet long, by 33 inches diameter. $1,345. They do not as yet, apparently, have a complete small nuclear reactor installation, with all control equip- ment and installation costs, offered as a packaged installation as a catalogue item. That may be a year or two more —but not much longer, I imagine. I can’t yet get quotations on that four-man scout ship—but I can, if I want, get quotations on eighty mega- volt X-ray equipment, or small atomic power plants. Of course, we always knew that would happen, didn’t we? THE EpITor. Ke ae THE THREE LAWS OF STUPIDYNAMICS First Stupidity Theorem: The probability of predicting cor- rectly in total ignorance is zero. Second Stupidity Theorem: The only thing you can learn is something you don’t know. Third Stupidity Theorem: You can’t tell a man something he doesn’t understand and expect him to make use of it. Thanks to Dr. Wayne Batteau, Harvard Speculative Society. Be, ee American publications, if they are of a technical or educational nature, may still be obtained over here \American Magazines by means of an annual subscription. The following are representative of the many fine magazines available ; Annual Rate Annual Rate FLYING MODELS =- = - - - 12/6 RADIO-ELECTRONICS - - - 32/6 SCIENCE DIGEST - - - - - 25/- POPULAR MECHANICS - - - 32/6 MECHANICS ILLUSTRATED - 25/- AMERICAN RIFLEMAN - - = 37/5 MODEL AIRPLANE NEWS -. - 28/- METRONOME- - - = = = = 37/6 POPULAR SCIENCE - - - - 30/6 PHOTOGRAPHY - - - = = = 37/6 U.S. CAM@RA- - - = = = = 31/3 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - - 63/- All prices include postage. Kindly send remittance with order. ATLAS PUBLISHING & DISTRIBUTING CO. LTD. 18 Bride Lane, London, E.C.4 Cconniclboolkks.conhn |