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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such a house, fully described in fiction and partly pictured in ads, is today a reality in the laboratories that are moving deeply into the coming age of electronics -the age that is ushering in a second Industrial Revolution. The first revolution taught man to build machines to accomplish tasks far beyond the power of his own muscles. Now, through electronics he is learning to endow his mechanical monsters with a sensory complex something like his own-eyes, ears, even a brain of sorts-so that they automatically perform his workaday chores and take on thousands of complicated new tasks...
Radar & the Breakthrough. The age of electronics, born of radio, was force fed by military necessity during World War II, when widespread use of radar and sonar extended man's eyes and ears far into the skies and deep into the ocean. With peace came radar's civilian counterpart : a vast new TV industry that has already put 42 million sets in U.S. homes. But the great breakthrough in electronics came in 1948. Bell Telephone Laboratories discovered the transistor, which took over many of the functions of temperamental glass vacuum tubes. Along with other new semiconductors such...
Brains for Automation. For industrial automation, the new computers can be hooked into other electronic-control devices such as servo-mechanisms, which sense and correct their own errors, run entire plants without human help. Beyond the computers, the age of electronics has produced hundreds of knowing gadgets for every use under the sun. There are electronic elevator systems with miniature electronic brains that automatically keep track of passenger demand, electronic "Ph meters" that can test with equal ease the acidity of California's lemon juice or the radioactivity of the AEC's plutonium, electronic "stopwatches" for industrial...
Brains for Survival. Nowhere is the age of electronics more advanced than in the U.S. armed forces, currently the industry's biggest and most demanding customer. The electronics defense budget for the current year is $3 billion, more than any other single item except aircraft. The U.S. military establishment is rapidly becoming one vast electronics system, whose probing antennas and twirling radar reflectors are so sensitive that an upended card table floating off the Florida Keys was recently reported by a rookie radarman as "four unidentified submarines." Virtually every modern weapon depends upon electronics in some...
...electronic giants-American Telephone & Telegraph, Radio Corp. of America, International Business Machines, General Electric, Sylvania, Westinghouse-but to Los Angeles' Ramo-Wooldridge is a perfect example of the way in which brilliant, little-known scientists are shooting up from obscurity to fame and sizable fortunes in the new age of electronics. The only atypical thing about Ramo-Wooldridge and its founders, Dean Wooldridge and Si Ramo, is the scope of their job and the size of their success...