A cutaway diagram of the Venera 8 landing capsule, which launched at about the same time as Kosmos-482 and successfully completed its mission to Venus.Credit...Sovfoto/Universal Images Group ...

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At the American Machine & Foundry annual meeting in Manhattan last week, stockholders strolling by a color cutaway diagram of the company’s complex new automatic bread-baking machine were ...