Word: accutron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...survey showed that it actually measured 100 meters and 4 in. Then the timers came under attack: "I was watching their hands," insisted one onlooker, "and I saw some of the fastest fingers in the West." Maybe. But in the cases of Greene, Hines and Smith, an automatic Bulova Accutron Phototimer confirmed that all three had indeed broken Mary's mark. Their times were therefore submitted to the International Amateur Athletic Federation for official recognition...
Humming. Most important, Henshel complemented the company's basic Bulova watch by introducing two new lines: the low-priced ($10.95 to $29.95) Caravelle, designed to compete with the Timex, and the top-quality Accutron ($125 and up), a battery-powered electronic watch whose tuning-fork action assures precision, makes the timepiece hum instead of tick. So fast did the new lines catch on that Bulova figures their combined dollar-sales volume during the past fiscal year exceeded overall watch sales of either of Bulova's chief U.S. competitors, Elgin and Hamilton. Not content with that, the company further...
...played the most gracious sort of national host to Italy's visiting Premier Aldo Moro. He afforded Moro the rare privilege of attending a U.S. Cabinet meeting. He showered Moro with gifts-including a 19th century Sheraton gilt mirror, a pen stand with two gold pens, a matching Accutron desk clock, a photograph of Italy taken from U.S. satellite Tiros IX, a stained-glass cross, a blue nylon sleeping bag for a Moro daughter, and a Texas cowboy costume for Moro...
...keep the radio spectrum clear of outmoded but garrulous space vehicles, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is turning to the small electronic timekeepers that Bulova Watch Co. developed for its Accutron wrist watches. To measure time, these timers use a transistor-controlled tuning fork that runs indefinitely on a tiny trickle ( eight-millionths of a watt) of electric power; a battery the size of a dime will keep one of them humming for a year. The whole apparatus weighs less than three ounces, and it can easily be set to turn off a satellite's transmitter after...
...above middle C. Each vibration pushes a jewel-tipped spring against a pinhead-sized wheel whose rim has 300 microscopic ratchet teeth. The turning of this wheel moves the hands of the watch through a conventional gear train. Bulova guarantees that its electronic watch, which it calls the Accutron. will not gain or lose more than one minute per month. Price of present-model watches...