Word: audio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Magnani Mannequins, displayed a fashion dummy that talks. Named Patty Petiteen, the mannequin will plug dresses for the ten to 14 age group. Sample sales talk: "Mother loves my Petiteen dresses because they need no alteration and have a money-back guarantee." The voice of the mannequin, developed by Audio-Visual Advertising Co., comes from a loudspeaker concealed inside the chest, and is synchronized with lip movements. Price: $284. ¶ Illinois Institute of Technology's Armour Research Foundation announced a cheap method for adding sound to 8-and 16-mm. home movies by putting magnetic material along the edge...
...Grade and high schools will get film strips, audio-visual materials, mimeographed throwaways, all with a soupgon of the Paramount gospel...
...opening show ran $5,200 over its budget and was a wretched failure. McCrary knocked over an easel loaded with placards which never did get put back in proper order; gremlins got into the balopticon (magic lantern), and the audio-control system went haywire. A less tenacious man than McCrary might have been crushed by the reviews (Variety: ". . . fantastically bad"; New York Times: ". . . involved hocus-pocus...
...presenting guest lecturers at least once a month and conducting classes in elementary electronics, the new group hopes to keep its members informed of latest developments in electronics and communications. Later this month, Frederick V. Hunt, also a Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, will speak on audio amplifiers, loudspeakers, and recording...
...Louis' muscles are not merely bulgy; they are noisy. For, no matter how softly he moves, man in motion is audible: to a sufficiently delicate ear, his muscles rustle and rumble. In the current issue of the Acoustical Society of America's Journal, two audio-scientists, Drs. Wilfred J. Brogden and George A. Miller, describe these minute muscular sounds and how they were first heard...