Word: antennaed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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R.C.A.. first color TV sets have just started rolling off the production line, will go on sale this month. Price: $1,000 for a 15-in. receiver plus $149.50 for service (one year) and installation (minus antenna). R.C.A.'s sales estimates for the industry: 70,000 in 1954, 350,000 in 1955, 5,000,000 a year...
...camera with which it hopes to regain leadership in the high-quality candid-camera market. From its $2,000.000 plant in Stuttgart the first production models of the Contaflex were shipped to the U.S.A precision instrument with watchwork-size screws and springs as delicate as a snail's antenna, the 35-mm. Contaflex weighs only 18 oz.. v. 34½-oz. for the Rolleiflex and 29^ oz. for the Leica. It combines the simplicity of operation of the Contax with the easy focusing and accurate view finding of a reflex camera. Price of the new camera with f/2.8...
Hogan, formerly of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, is noted for his successful construction of the microwave gyrator, which in principle permits the simultaneous transmission and reception of a single frequency from the same antenna. Trefethen is currently doing research in the field of fluid mechanics and heat transfer in liquid metals. Since 1951 he has been Technical Aide to the Director of the National Science Foundation in Washington...
...unseen traffic cop is a radar meter. Of several brands the most commonly used is a 40-lb. aluminum-sheathed box with two sets of antennas and a price tag of $1,100.* It fits snugly into the rear of a prowl car. As a speeding car approaches, the meter's transmitting antenna sends out high-frequency radio waves that bounce off the car, change frequency and are picked up by the receiving antenna. The difference between the two frequencies tells the speed accurately (within 2 m.p.h.). (In a group of cars, the meter picks out the one that...
...Sight. An aluminum TV antenna that promises good reception to televiewers 100 miles from stations has been developed by the Channel Master Corp. of Ellenville, N. Y. The antenna is made of two newly designed high-frequency antennas, one on top of the other, plus a gridlike reflector for picking up TV signals. Price: $20.83 plus installation...