<p>For something different, check out Stanford’s:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpu44no3uO8[/url] ”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpu44no3uO8</a> ;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaHywTO6Fcs&mode=related&search=[/url] ”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaHywTO6Fcs&mode=related&search=</a> ;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeyY5qQu8ho&mode=related&search=[/url] ”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeyY5qQu8ho&mode=related&search=</a></p> ;
<p>Portion of article:http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/10/5/hailStanfordCommercialsHail[/url] ”>http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/10/5/hailStanfordCommercialsHail</a></p> ;
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Hail, Stanford commercials, hail
<p>In the middle of Stanford Football’s 41-3 blowout loss to Arizona State last Saturday, fans at Stanford Stadium, and those watching on Fox Sports Net, paused — not just for a third-quarter timeout — but for a marshmallow in a microwave. </p>
<p>As a marshmallow bunny bubbled and bloated on screen, a nonchalant voiceover described how “the people of Stanford University answer the call” of the arts and sciences to invent technology such as the microwave — which is why, the voiceover finishes, “Hail, Stanford, Hail.”</p>
<p>Not the typical commercial break for a football game — let alone the typical ad for a university — “Klystron Tube” is one of three “Hail, Stanford, Hail” commercials that promote the Cardinal during televised athletic events. The other two are “FM Synthesizer,” which features a wild-haired keyboardist rocking out to FM waves, and “Laser Technology,” which features a cat chasing a red laser pointer.</p>
<p>In stark contrast, past years’ TV campaigns have featured singular commercials showing glimpses of the Oval, campus events and student life. Noticing similar ads from colleges across the nation, Stanford officials were looking for something that would “rise above the clutter,” according to Kate Chesley, information editor for University Communications.</p>
<p>“Most college institutional promotional messages are very predictable and follow a very similar format,” Chesley said. “We were looking for something different so we could better compete for the attention of alumni, students and others watching Cardinal sports.”
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<p>That’s a lot of bromides.</p>
<p>Is Tikki Barber that famous of an Alum for UVA?</p>
<p>What do you mean? He’s incredibly visible and well-known. Do you not follow sports?</p>
<p>I posted the spots because they were different, I wasnt vouching for their validity.</p>
<p>Anyway, the spot claims that they created a Klystron Tube which harnessed an energy known as the microwave. </p>
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A klystron is a specialized linear-beam vacuum tube (evacuated electron tube). The pseudo-Greek word klystron comes from the stem form κλυσ- (klys) of a Greek verb referring to the action of waves breaking against a shore, and the end of the word electron.</p>
<p>The brothers Russell and Sigurd Varian of Stanford University are generally considered to be the inventors of the klystron. Their prototype was completed in August 1937. Upon publication in 1939,[1] news of the klystron immediately influenced the work of US and UK researchers working on radar equipment. The Varians went on to found Varian Associates to commercialize the technology (for example to make small linear accelerators to generate photons for external beam radiation therapy). In their 1939 paper, they acknowledged the contribution of A. Arsenjewa-Heil and O. Heil (wife and husband) for their velocity modulation theory in 1935[2].</p>
<p>Klystron amplifiers have the advantage (over the magnetron) of coherently amplifying a reference signal and so its output may be precisely controlled in amplitude, frequency and phase. Many klystrons have a waveguide for coupling microwave energy into and out of the device, although it is also quite common for lower power and lower frequency klystrons to use coaxial couplings instead. In some cases a coupling probe is used to couple the microwave energy from a klystron into a separate external waveguide.
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<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klystron_tube[/url] ”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klystron_tube</a></p> ;
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October 16, 2007, 10:49pm
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<p>That’s true but the Magnetron came well before that and is closer to what you see in the microwave oven. What they did was to be used for improving radar systems and cost well into six figures even today. I’d call that a real stretch. </p>
<p>Same for the laser claim. All the work was done at Bell Labs and Columbia well before Schalow joined Stanford in 1961. That’s like claiming Stanford invented the car if 20 years later the inventor was appointed to the faculty. Not hardly.</p>
<p>Only the FM Synthesizer claim is really accurate.</p>