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...shelves, each 28 ft. long, 3 ft. wide and 20 ft. high. Each rack has seven shelves; on each shelf are 48 grey metal boxes; and the whole thing looks as passive as a shoe factory's inventory. Actually, it is the first half of the Zeus capacitor, one of the world's most violent bits of equipment...
...could not afford to set up plants for any one of the six nations alone can well afford to do it for the whole market, have discovered that U.S. methods of mass production and efficiency give them a big advantage. Sprague Electric bought a majority interest in an Italian capacitor firm in 1956, doubled sales by indoctrinating the workers with U.S. methods...
Sister Transistor. General Electric announced a tiny electronic capacitor that is designed to work as a companion to the transistor. About as big as a kernel of corn (and about a quarter the size of the smallest capacitor G.E. has turned out so far). the new capacitor can store energy and release it later when needed. Made mostly of silver and tantalum, it filters electric current, eliminating interference and improving the tone of such devices as miniature radios and hearing aids. Price: about...