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Electric typewriters are steadily taking a bigger share of the typewriter market, but none of them can match the unusual trick of the new Smith-Corona portable, introduced last week; it can keep right on typing after its cord is pulled out of the socket. The source of its cordless energy is a compact, efficient power supply that has excited the inventive brain of U.S. industry: the nickel-cadmium battery. This versatile product can be recharged in an ordinary electric socket, can be made tiny enough to power a hearing aid, and is good for a total life of three...
...runaway success of transistor radios showed the U.S. consumer's fascination with what is simple and portable, and attracted U.S. industry to the virtues of the nickel-cadmiums. Skil Corp. and Black & Decker sell cordless electric hand drills, hedge trimmers, grass clippers and other tools that are powered by a small nickel-cadmium power pack built into the tool or strapped to the user's belt. Remington, Schick and Norelco have battery-run shavers. Sunbeam has a cordless shaver and kitchen mixer, General Electric a toothbrush, Fairchild a home movie camera. Nickel-cadmiums also power a growing variety...
...chomping kings of a somewhat mysterious industry gathered in the New York Trade Show Building last week, unrolled their duffel bags, and pulled out what was possibly the most overwhelming assortment of white elephants ever assembled under one roof. There were old ammunition cans and "slightly used" jungle shorts, cordless electric blankets and rubber ripple mats, as well as powder horns from Germany and inflatable snakes from Japan. The occasion: the 15th Trade Show of the Institute of Surplus Dealers...
Power Knife. A cordless, vibrating electric carving knife, the ElectriCarver, has been put on the market by Illinois' Burgess Vibrocrafters, Inc. With a battery-powered handle and separate blades for carving and for slicing, the ElectriCarver set costs...
...year old graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College died peacefully in his sleep. He suffered a heart aliment. Present with Lamont were his wife and two of their children, cordless Lamont '24 and Mrs. C. C. Cunningham...