''Togetherness''

This article,  published in the December 1960 issue of Aerospace Magazine, describes safety procedures for the correct handling of the Boeing BOMARC air defense missile during air transport. The tone of the article is unusual for such a subject -' 'As this article goes to press, the safety record of Bomarc airlifts can be summed up in four words: so far, so good. You may recall, however, the optimist who jumped off the top of a New York office building. He was heard to yell the same thing as he passed the 20th floor: so far, so good''
The writer of the article, some guy named Thomas Pynchon, quit Boeing in 1962 and went on to become a novelist of some renown.

Aerospace Safety Magazine, 12/1960, USAF

http://www.vheissu.net/bio/eng_togetherness.htm

''Fallout Chic''

The result of a research contract awarded to Rice University, Department of Architecture by the US Civil Defense agency. Five architects designed fallout shelters for industrial buildings. 

Industrial Architecture : Fallout Shelters (1963)

https://archive.org/details/industrialarchit00lacyrich

''I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines''

''The book begins with researches in robot modelling & design, in which different approaches in kinematical, dynamical and other design issues of mobile robots are discussed. Modelling is a first step in designing a new system; kinematics is the most basic study of how mechanical systems behave. In mobile robotics, we need to understand the mechanical behaviour of the robot both in order to design appropriate robots for tasks and to understand how to create control software for an instance of mobile robot hardware. This chapter presents different researches in design of various robot systems.''

Cutting Edge Robotics (2005)

https://archive.org/details/ost-engineering-cutting-edge-robotics

''Fear of Frying''

Published in 2006, some thirty years after the last Apollo mission-
''The primary threat to astronauts from space radiation is high-energy charged particles, such as electrons, protons, alpha and heavier particles, originating from galactic cosmic radiation (GCR), solar particle events (SPEs) and trapped radiation belts in Earth orbit. There is also the added threat of secondary neutrons generated as the space radiation interacts with atmosphere, soil and structural materials.[1] For Lunar exploration missions, the habitats and transfer vehicles are expected to provide shielding from standard background radiation. Unfortunately, the Lunar Extravehicular Activity (EVA) suit is not expected to afford such shielding.'' 
Oh well.

Active Solid State Dosimetry for Lunar EVA, NASA 2006

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_20060013413

''Virtual vertigo''

''This Thesis was aimed at studying the effects of time delay in the visual feedback loop of a man-machine system. A one-dimensional, step-type input, pursuit tracking experiment was developed to study these effects with transmission-type delays of zero to ten seconds. Thirty-six subjects participated in a series of tests that covered: seven different delays, two different levels of course complexity for each delay, learning, and open-loop conditions. It was found that tracking performance deteriorates non-linearly with increases in delay and that the magnitude of this performance degradation is a function of course complexity.'' 

Effects of time delay in the visual feedback loop of a human-machine system (1966)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19660025923

''We have the technology.'' 

''The design of a highly anthropomorphic human scale robot arm for space based operations is described.''

Design of the NASA Robonaut Hand (1999)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_20000097045

''Have space suit -Will travel.''

''DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN EXPERIENCES DERIVED IN DESIGNING SPACE SUITS FOR HUMAN HIGH ALTITUDE AND SPACE FLIGHTS ARE REPORTED. THE PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIUM IN WHICH THE FLIGHTS TAKE PLACE, THE PHYSICAL FLIGHT FACTORS AND THEIR INFLUENCE UPON THE HUMAN BODY ARE DISCUSSED. THE BASES OF THE THEORY AND METHOD OF DESIGNING SPACE SUIT SYSTEMS AND PARTS ARE BRIEFLY PRESENTED. THE BOOK IS DESIGNED FOR SPECIALISTS WORKING IN THE FIELD OF DESIGN, PRODUCTION, AND TESTING OF EQUIPMENT FOR PILOTS AND COSMONAUTS. IT IS ALSO USEFUL TO THE ENGINEERING-TECHNICAL PERSONNEL WORKING ON THE CREATION OF LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR THE CREWS OF MODERN SPACECRAFT''

HIGH ALTITUDE AND SPACE SUITS STUDIES (Alekseyev,S.M. ; Umanskiy, S.P. 1973)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19740007684

''Hide in plain sight''

''Manual prepared for the Industrial camouflage program at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York''

Industrial Camouflage Manual (Pratt Institute Camouflage Laboratory, 1942)

https://archive.org/details/industrialcamouf00wittrich

''More human than human.''

Mixed Reality and Human-Robot interaction (2009)

https://archive.org/details/Mixed_Reality_and_Human-Robot_Interaction

''Four-one-one, may we help you?''

''...(C)omputers, BBS's, the telephone company, arcade games, radio equipment, general electronic equipment, cable and other utility companies and anything/everything nobody else wants to talk about...''

Blacklisted! 411 Magazine

https://archive.org/details/blacklisted411

''Tonight I'm gonna party like it's nineteen eighty-four''

''Variant, a radical art magazine''

 Variant Magazine No. 1-16 (1984-1994)

https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Variant+magazine%22

"Vivre? Les Robots feront cela pour nous."

''THE GENERAL USE OF ROBOT MANIPULATORS IS EXPLAINED AND THE BASICS OF THEIR DESIGN AND OPERATION ARE DESCRIBED...''

ROBOT MANIPULATORS (1975)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19750021707

''If anybody can be tape recorder 3 then tape recorder 3 loses power.''

 ''This publication listed and illustrated many professional and consumer tape recorders then on the market, alphabetically by manufacturer.'' 

 Audio Devices - Tape Recorder Directories (1955-1961)

https://archive.org/details/AudioDevices-TapeRecorderDirectory1960-1961

''Long live the New Flesh!''

The introduction of portable video cameras in the late 1960s brought about a new field- independent video. Radical Software was a journal started in 1970 to cover aspects of the new medium - from production, distribution, community work and political activism to theoretical,aesthetic and economic issues.

Radical Software (1970-74)

http://www.radicalsoftware.org/e/index.html

“Sooner or later, everything turns into television.” 

The first portable video system, the Sony Video Rover, was introduced in 1967. It was a two-piece set consisting of a black and white video camera and a separate, record only 1/2 inch recorder unit. 

The Video Guide: Ch. 12-The Video Portapak (Charles Bensiger,1981)

http://videopreservation.conservation-us.org/vid_guide/12/12.html

''Space Age Slang.''

''The Apollo terminology definitions are presented. They were originally intended to provide Apollo Program participants with an updated collection of terminology used on the Apollo Program.''

Apollo terminology (1963)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19930074634

"You know what your trouble is? You're the kind who always reads the handbook.''

Moog Minimoog Owner's Manual

https://archive.org/details/synthmanual-moog-minimoog-owners-manual

''It's like,the logic of the visible at the service of the invisible.''

''The most extensive use of dream imagery in popular culture occurs in the visual arts, and in the past five years it has become evident that music video (a semi-narrative hybrid of film and television) is the most dreamlike media product of all. The rampant depiction and implication of dreams and media fantasies in music video are often strongly encouraged by the lyrics and soundtrack, formal requirements''

Dreams and Mediation in Music Video (1986).

https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED284312

''Whisky Tango Romeo veintiuno...'' 

                                       


''Shortwave Numbers Stations are a perfect method of anonymous, one way communication. Spies located anywhere in the world can be communicated to by their masters via small, locally available, and unmodified Shortwave receivers. The encryption system used by Numbers Stations, known as a one time pad is unbreakable. Combine this with the fact that it is almost impossible to track down the message recipients once they are inserted into the enemy country, it becomes clear just how powerful the Numbers Station system is.''

The Conet Project (IRDIAL Records, 1997)

https://archive.org/details/ird059