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.But where were the engineers responsible for this stuff? Why was it impossibleto locate them? Mail reached Electronic Service through Continental.Hewondered about Mechanical Service.Had Eastern received a catalogue of foreignmechanical components?But his visit to Continental had thrown him up against a blank wall.No one admitted receiving the condenser orders and Cal knew none of SimonForeman s men were capable of such development.And that catalogue! It wasn t enough that it should list scores of unfamiliarcomponents.It had to be printed on some unknown substance that resembledpaper only superficially.That was one more item that spoke not merely of isolated engineering advancesbut of a whole culture unfamiliar to him.And that was utterly impossible.Where could such a culture exist?Regardless of the fantastic nature of the task, he had made up his mind to dowhat he had suggested only as a joke at first.He was going to attempt theconstruction of an interocitor.Somehow he felt that there would be clues tothe origin of this fantastic engineering.But could it be done? He d previously dismissed it as impossible but now thatit was a determined course the problem had to be analyzed further.In thecatalogue were one hundred and six separate components but he knew it was notsimply a matter of ordering one of each and putting them together.That would be like ordering one tuning condenser, one coil, one tube and so onand expecting to build a super-het from them.In the interocitor there wouldbe multiples of some parts, and different electrical values.And, finally, if he ever got the thing working how would he know if it wereperforming properly or not?He quit debating the pros and cons.He had known from the moment he firstlooked through the catalogue that he was going to try.He went directly to the Purchasing Office instead of his lab the next morning.Through the glass panels of the outer room he could see Joe Wilson sitting athis desk with his face over a shoe box, staring with an intent and agonizedfrown.Cal grinned to himself.It was hard to tell when Joe s mugging was real or notPage 123 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlbut he couldn t imagine him sitting there doing it without an audience.Cal opened the door quietly, and then he caught a glimpse of the contents ofthe box.It was wriggling.He scowled, too. What have you got now? An earthworm farm? Joe looked up, his face still wearing a bewildered and distant expression. Oh, hello, Cal.This is a tumbling barrel. Cal stared at the contents of the box.It looked like a mass of tiny blackworms in perpetual erratic motion. What s the gag this time?That box of worms doesn t look much like a tumbling barrel. It would if they were metallic worms and just walked around the metal partsthat needed tumbling. This isn t another Electronic Service--16 product, is it? No.Metalcrafters sent over this sample.Wanted to know if they could sell usany for our mechanical department.The idea is that you just dump whateverneeds tumbling into a box of this compound, strain it out in a few minutes andyour polishing job is done. What makes the stuff wiggle? That s the secret that Metalcrafters won t tell. Order five hundred pounds of it, said Cal suddenly. Call them on the phoneand tell them we can use it this afternoon. What s the big idea? You can t use it. Try it. Dubiously, Joe lifted the phone and contacted the order department ofMetalcrafters.He placed the order.After a moment he hung up. They say thatdue to unexpected technological difficulties in production they are notaccepting orders for earlier than thirty-day delivery. The crazy dopes! They won t get it in thirty days or thirty months. What are you talking about? Where do you think they got this stuff? They didn t discover it.They got it the same way we got these condensers and they re hoping to cash inon it before they even know what it is.As if they could figure it out inthirty days! Then he told Joe about the gears of Edmunds. This begins to look like more than accident, said Joe.Cal nodded slowly. Sample of products of an incredible technology wereapparently mis-sent to three of the industrial plants here in Mason.But Iwonder how many times it has happened in other places.It almost looks like a deliberate pattern of some sort. But who s sending it all and how and why? Who developed this stuff?It couldn t be done on a shoestring, you know.That stuff smells of big moneyspent in development labs.Those condensers must have cost a half million, I ll bet. Make out an order for me, said Cal. Charge it to my project.There s enough surplus to stand it.I ll take the rap if anybody snoops. What do you want? Send it to Continental as before.Just say you want one complete set ofcomponents as required for the construction of a single interocitor model.That may get me the right number of duplicate parts unless I get crossed up bysomething I m not thinking of. Joe s eyebrows shot up. You re going to try to build one by the Chinesemethod? The Chinese method would be simple, Cal grunted. They take a finished cakeand reconstruct it.If Ihad a finished interocitor I d gladly tackle that.This is going to be builtby the Cal Meacham original catalogue method. He worked overtime for the next couple of days to beat out the bugs in theairline ground transmitter and finally turned it over to the productionPage 124 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmldepartment for processing.There d still be a lot of work on it becauseproduction wouldn t like some of the complex sub-assemblies he d been forcedto design but he d have time for the interocitor stuff if and when it showedup.After two weeks he was almost certain that something had gone wrong and theyhad lost contact with the mysterious supplier.His disappointment vanishedwhen the receiving clerk called him and said that fourteen crates had justbeen received for him.Fourteen crates seemed a reasonable number but he hadn t been prepared for thesize of them.They stood seven feet high and were no smaller than four by fivefeet in cross section.Cal groaned as he saw them standing on the receiving platform.He visionedcost sheets withastronomical figures on them.What had he got himself into?He cleared out one of his screen rooms and ordered the stuff brought in.Then he began the job of unpacking the crates as they were slowly dollied in [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.But where were the engineers responsible for this stuff? Why was it impossibleto locate them? Mail reached Electronic Service through Continental.Hewondered about Mechanical Service.Had Eastern received a catalogue of foreignmechanical components?But his visit to Continental had thrown him up against a blank wall.No one admitted receiving the condenser orders and Cal knew none of SimonForeman s men were capable of such development.And that catalogue! It wasn t enough that it should list scores of unfamiliarcomponents.It had to be printed on some unknown substance that resembledpaper only superficially.That was one more item that spoke not merely of isolated engineering advancesbut of a whole culture unfamiliar to him.And that was utterly impossible.Where could such a culture exist?Regardless of the fantastic nature of the task, he had made up his mind to dowhat he had suggested only as a joke at first.He was going to attempt theconstruction of an interocitor.Somehow he felt that there would be clues tothe origin of this fantastic engineering.But could it be done? He d previously dismissed it as impossible but now thatit was a determined course the problem had to be analyzed further.In thecatalogue were one hundred and six separate components but he knew it was notsimply a matter of ordering one of each and putting them together.That would be like ordering one tuning condenser, one coil, one tube and so onand expecting to build a super-het from them.In the interocitor there wouldbe multiples of some parts, and different electrical values.And, finally, if he ever got the thing working how would he know if it wereperforming properly or not?He quit debating the pros and cons.He had known from the moment he firstlooked through the catalogue that he was going to try.He went directly to the Purchasing Office instead of his lab the next morning.Through the glass panels of the outer room he could see Joe Wilson sitting athis desk with his face over a shoe box, staring with an intent and agonizedfrown.Cal grinned to himself.It was hard to tell when Joe s mugging was real or notPage 123 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlbut he couldn t imagine him sitting there doing it without an audience.Cal opened the door quietly, and then he caught a glimpse of the contents ofthe box.It was wriggling.He scowled, too. What have you got now? An earthworm farm? Joe looked up, his face still wearing a bewildered and distant expression. Oh, hello, Cal.This is a tumbling barrel. Cal stared at the contents of the box.It looked like a mass of tiny blackworms in perpetual erratic motion. What s the gag this time?That box of worms doesn t look much like a tumbling barrel. It would if they were metallic worms and just walked around the metal partsthat needed tumbling. This isn t another Electronic Service--16 product, is it? No.Metalcrafters sent over this sample.Wanted to know if they could sell usany for our mechanical department.The idea is that you just dump whateverneeds tumbling into a box of this compound, strain it out in a few minutes andyour polishing job is done. What makes the stuff wiggle? That s the secret that Metalcrafters won t tell. Order five hundred pounds of it, said Cal suddenly. Call them on the phoneand tell them we can use it this afternoon. What s the big idea? You can t use it. Try it. Dubiously, Joe lifted the phone and contacted the order department ofMetalcrafters.He placed the order.After a moment he hung up. They say thatdue to unexpected technological difficulties in production they are notaccepting orders for earlier than thirty-day delivery. The crazy dopes! They won t get it in thirty days or thirty months. What are you talking about? Where do you think they got this stuff? They didn t discover it.They got it the same way we got these condensers and they re hoping to cash inon it before they even know what it is.As if they could figure it out inthirty days! Then he told Joe about the gears of Edmunds. This begins to look like more than accident, said Joe.Cal nodded slowly. Sample of products of an incredible technology wereapparently mis-sent to three of the industrial plants here in Mason.But Iwonder how many times it has happened in other places.It almost looks like a deliberate pattern of some sort. But who s sending it all and how and why? Who developed this stuff?It couldn t be done on a shoestring, you know.That stuff smells of big moneyspent in development labs.Those condensers must have cost a half million, I ll bet. Make out an order for me, said Cal. Charge it to my project.There s enough surplus to stand it.I ll take the rap if anybody snoops. What do you want? Send it to Continental as before.Just say you want one complete set ofcomponents as required for the construction of a single interocitor model.That may get me the right number of duplicate parts unless I get crossed up bysomething I m not thinking of. Joe s eyebrows shot up. You re going to try to build one by the Chinesemethod? The Chinese method would be simple, Cal grunted. They take a finished cakeand reconstruct it.If Ihad a finished interocitor I d gladly tackle that.This is going to be builtby the Cal Meacham original catalogue method. He worked overtime for the next couple of days to beat out the bugs in theairline ground transmitter and finally turned it over to the productionPage 124 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmldepartment for processing.There d still be a lot of work on it becauseproduction wouldn t like some of the complex sub-assemblies he d been forcedto design but he d have time for the interocitor stuff if and when it showedup.After two weeks he was almost certain that something had gone wrong and theyhad lost contact with the mysterious supplier.His disappointment vanishedwhen the receiving clerk called him and said that fourteen crates had justbeen received for him.Fourteen crates seemed a reasonable number but he hadn t been prepared for thesize of them.They stood seven feet high and were no smaller than four by fivefeet in cross section.Cal groaned as he saw them standing on the receiving platform.He visionedcost sheets withastronomical figures on them.What had he got himself into?He cleared out one of his screen rooms and ordered the stuff brought in.Then he began the job of unpacking the crates as they were slowly dollied in [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]