Word: automaticism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tough Plastic. A new heat-and abrasive-resistant plastic, 100 Tenite Polyethylene, was announced by Eastman Kodak Co. The plastic is so tough that utensils made of it can be sterilized in boiling water or washed in automatic dishwashers.
After water and carbon dioxide from automatic extinguishers had put out the fire, the worn-out and heartsick missilemen found the sole survivor: the U.S.'s tiny satellite, intact, thrown out of the nose section of the rocket, broadcasting the signals that were meant to be sent down from...
Unless something goes wrong, the suit stays relaxed, but if the cabin loses its pressure at, say, 150,000 ft., an automatic valve shoots oxygen into the suit from the airplane's supply. The inner suit blows up like a man-shaped balloon. Complicated pressure-and temperature-regulating gadgets...
When it looks as if a potential enemy has developed quick, automatic devices for breaking a radar's code, more complicated electronic codes must be devised. Some missiles have abandoned radar in favor of heat-sensitive eyes that guide them to the hot tail pipes of an enemy airplane...
Bill Changer. The first automatic device to make change for paper currency, long a vexing problem to vending-machine operators, was announced by Chicago's A.B.T. Manufacturing Corp. The table-model machine changes $1 bills by scanning the bill through six holes with photoflood lights, registering the beams on...