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These were among the first widespread showings of a new industrial training system that animates still pictures by a new use of polarized light. Industry and government are already using the system for everything from showing how the new Bulova electronic watch operates to training workers to launch a Titan missile from an underground base. F. P. Copper, of General Electric's light military electronics division, says of the animating process: "It's terrific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goods & Services: Moving Still Pictures | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

...other claims on the $607,128 estate of the late Pepsi-Cola Chairman Alfred Steele, it appeared that there would be nothing left for his widow, Pepsi Prolocutrix (and Cinemactress) Joan Crawford, 52. Also on the Surrogate's docket last week: a claim by Socialite lleana Bulova, for the widow's share of the $10 million to $15 million left by the late Arde Bulova. Still the smashing-looking blonde she was at 18, when first wooed by the watch magnate. the Rumanian-born widow, now 34, charged that in 1956, two years before he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 10, 1961 | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

Personal timekeepers (trade doubletalk for watches) do not use anything as fancy as hydrogen atoms. Since the 17th century they have depended on a delicate hairspring that keeps a balance wheel turning backward and forward at a regular rate. But last week Bulova Watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How to Keep Time | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

...second, giving a musical note a little higher than F above middle C. Each vibration pushes a jewel-tipped spring against a pinhead-sized wheel whose rim has 300 microscopic ratchet teeth. The turning of this wheel moves the hands of the watch through a conventional gear train. Bulova guarantees that its electronic watch, which it calls the Accutron. will not gain or lose more than one minute per month. Price of present-model watches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How to Keep Time | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

...hand-size shortwave transistor radio. Produced by Bulova Watch Co., it can pick up shortwave stations round the world. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Prometheus Unbound | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

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