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Electronic tune-up

Description: Interview with Marshall Paisner, originator of electronic tune-up business. Offers fixed price oil and lubrication service. He also established Scrub-A-Dub car wash. His success derives from standardization and uniformity to keep costs down. Inside Tuner-Up shop in Natick, mechanic connects sensor cables and probes in engine compartment to diagnose adjustments needed. Readings are printed out.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/08/1978

FLIGHT DATA, VOICE RECORDERS

Description: FLIGHT DATA LABS, MAN With VOICE RECORDERS AT National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) IN WASHINGTON DC
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/21/1982

FLIGHT DATA, VOICE RECORDERS

Description: COMPUTERS, TAPES, MEN WORKING WITH VOICE RECORDERS AT National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) LAB
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/21/1982

FRACTALS, ROBOTICS, HOLOGRAMS

Description: HANDOUT TAPE ON SCIENTIFIC WONDERS — FRACTALS, HOLOGRAMS, ROBOTICS, COMPUTER GRAPHICS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/31/1985

Failures of science and technology

Description: Recent failures in technology and science include Hubble telescope and space shuttle problems, cold fusion experiments, biomedical fraud. Researchers pressured by competition + demand for grand results.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/29/1990

Fiber Optics Convention

Description: Fiber Optics Convention at Hyatt Regency. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/25/1981

Fighting consumer fraud

Description: Press conference held by Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti and Paula Gold, chief of consumer protection division, on criminal prosecution of fraud to combat white collar economic crime. She talks about technology to facilitate communication between law enforcement agencies. A man talks about fraud in the nursing home industry. High rises in Boston financial district. Several takes of reporter standup. He curses when he messes up.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/22/1976

Flight simulator

Description: Flight simulator computer program at MIT. Screen displays failure diagnosis when instruments do not function as intended.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/10/1983

Food irradiation, Part 1

Description: Food irradiation at Army Research and Development Lab in Natick. Linear accelerator using cobalt-60. Food treated to to extend shelf life by killing bacteria. Dr. Abner Salant, director of food engineering, talks about obstacles to FDA approval of process because of current safety and storage regulations. Study has been going on for 25 years, during which testing threshold has been raised. reel 1 of 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/08/1978

Food irradiation, Part 2

Description: Interview continued with Dr. Abner Salant about food irradiation at Army Research and Development Lab in Natick. He affirms absolutely no danger in process, not carcinogenic. More energy efficient and less damaging to food than conventional sterilization and canning methods. He explains process: 1) With heat, deactivate enzymes that catalyze food. 2) Vacuum pack (hermetically seal) to eliminate oxygen that brings about rancidity. 3) Pass through radiation to kill microorganisms that decay the food. Nitrites not needed to control growth of botulism bacteria. Samples of irradiated meat products on plates. reel 2 of 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/08/1978