Apparatus for generating high pressure synthesis gas containing hydrogen and carbon oxides and useful in Oxo processes, hydrogen production, and in the production of ammonia, methanol and the like. The apparatus includes a furnace, a novel arrangement of a combustion turbine exhausting into the furnace to supply preheated oxygen thereto and a sequence of heaters and reactors for alternately heating the reaction mixture in the furnace and adiabatically reacting the mixture outside the furnace to ...

A method and apparatus for generating and maintaining an available supply of a radioactive eluate with at least a minimum level of activity. A relatively short-lived daughter radionuclide is produced by the radioactive decay of a relatively longer-lived radionuclide in a radionuclide generating chamber. The daughter radionuclide is separated from the parent radionuclide by use of an eluting solution. The resultant solution is recycled through the generator chamber to replenish and concentrate th...

Circuitry is disclosed for generating a pie wedge shaped CRT raster chararized by curved lines, each having the same center of curvature, whereby the range scale is uniform throughout the raster when used as a sonar display. The disclosed circuitry produces a modulated sawtooth deflection signal and a clipped and modulated hyperbolic voltage waveform, the effect of which is added to that of the normal range deflection voltage ramp to produce the desired raster.

A strobe generator in response to a key depression generates a strobe which is not affected by contact bounce produced by depressing and releasing keys whereby the strobe signals when a utilization device may sample valid keyboard generated information. An accurate strobe interval is generated by utilizing a retriggerable logic circuit to produce a strobe only after contact bounce produced by depressing a key subsides. The widith of the strobe is arranged to be a function of the length of time t...

A magnetic bubble generator device is provided for nucleating magnetic bubbles in a wafer of magnetic material. The device includes an arrangement of permalloy elements which generate fringing magnetic fields near their ends when the elements are magnetized by an applied rotating magnetic field. These fringing fields penetrate the magnetic wafer, but are not large enough to induce reversal of the direction of the magnetization in the wafer. However, the device also includes a current line which ...

A tapered enclosure for a body of water has a wave generator positioned in a relatively narrow and deeper end. In one form, the wave generator is a buoyant plunger mounted for vertical reciprocation within a chamber having a shorewardly facing opening. Through a cyclic control system, the plunger is driven in phase with the forces of gravity and buoyancy acting thereon, starting from a rest position through strokes of increasing amplitude until a desired steady state is attained to sequentially ...

An electric generation and control device, which comprises an inductor and an armature provided with a double three-phase winding. Each phase of the armature consists of a generation winding and of a smoothing and control winding, which is electrically in series relationship with the generation winding and both electrically and mechanically phase shifted in advance with respect thereto. The smoothing and control winding is formed by at least two turns in series as wound on two columns of at leas...

An electric generation apparatus for houses and the like wherein the prime mover is an automobile's driven wheel that has in combination a pair of fluted rollers adapted to receive the automobile wheel. Drive means are entrained with the rollers and in a preferred embodiment a slip clutch receives the rotational output from the drive means. The output of the slip clutch is connected to an electric generator. An electrical switch is coupled with an electrical connector so as to apply the output o...

An electrophotographic plate comprising a conductive substrate, a charge transport layer and a charge generation layer consisting essentially of from 5 to 35 percent by weight tellurium and from 0.5 to 20 percent by weight arsenic, with the substantial balance being vitreous selenium.

A coordinate generation system providing deflection signals for the X and the Y coordinates of an oscilloscope type display for producing a line on the display having a direction synchronized with a source of direction. Such a source of direction is typically a radar antenna in which case the line produced on the display is directed in the direction of the antenna such as in a plan position indicator (PPI). The coordinate generation system utilizes a sequence of pulses, each of which indicates a...