Word: automaticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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An Aerobee rocket soared up last week from Holloman Air Force Base, N. Mex. carrying an odd pay load. Inside its nose were two heavy steel cylinders containing thermite* and 2 lbs. each of metallic sodium. The rocket took off 20 minutes after sunset. When it reached 40 miles and...
Though the new Continental has been redesigned from rubber to roof, it is deliberately reminiscent of its famed predecessor. The body is long (18 ft. 2 in.) and low (56 in.). The spare-tire mount, a hallmark of the old Continental, is now molded into the trunk lid. Under its...
On closer investigation, McCormack seemed to be talking through his political hat. The Air Force had developed the SAGE (for Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) system under President Truman as a sort of electronic umbrella for the entire nation. President Eisenhower had ordered SAGE adopted as quickly as possible. SAGE would...
California's Bank of America last week introduced its huge new electronic friend ERMA. which Bank President S. Clark Beise hailed as "the greatest advance in bookkeeping in the history of banking." Beise's ERMA (Electronic Recording Machine-Automatic), tended by nine operators, can handle all the bookkeeping...
The U.S. exhibit, from an aqua-green Thunderbird to an automatic voting machine on which visitors registered their favorite products, easily outdazzled competition from Red China, even though its display of heavy equipment included machinery made in satellite Europe.