Word: coupler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...installed. The chapel organ became one of West Point's points of interest. Organist Mayer's baby kept on growing. Thousands of pipes were crowded into the organ lofts, and the three basement rooms became filled with the complex wind and control machinery, e.g., five electric motors, coupler relays, etc. Besides the ordinary stops, Mayer acquired such theatrical effects as a cymbal crash, a tympani roll, a drum stroke. In 1950, a wealthy alumnus gave Mayer a second new console, a $35,000 item that contained 1,622 parts, including 757 stop keys, 218 combinations and 248 miscellaneous...
...dance that will tour the country-fair circuit later this summer. Performed by four new Harvester tractors, the dance is designed to show just how fast the machines can hitch up to various farm implements, with the help of a new hydraulic coupling device. With Harvester's new coupler, farmers do not have to dismount from their tractors to hitch or unhitch plows, harrows, weeders and other Harvester implements; working from the tractor seat, they can do the job in seven seconds...
Harvester's Fast-Hitch coupler is the most important of a complete new line of farm implements on which the company has spent about $150 million in the past two years. Included in the line are a variety of implements formerly usable only with the biggest tractors and now redesigned in smaller sizes...