Word: design
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Airways' Los Angeles Operations Manager Major Daniel E. Ellis had an idea, took it to California Institute of Technology's young Research Physicist Anthony Easton. Last week, Researcher Easton finished his job: the design for an automatic distress signal. The apparatus is a two-tube, five-meter radio sending set, cased against fire in two inches of asbestos, housed in the plane's tail, spring-mounted against shocks. Its short antenna is a streamlined metal rod running from the fuselage along the leading edge of the plane's vertical stabilizer. Designer Easton chose...
...Jefferson nickel was to appear this month as a successor to the buffalo nickel which has been in circulation since 1913. Last week the Bureau of the Mint announced that the public would have to wait till October. Reason: The Federal Fine Arts Commission did not like the original design (TIME, May 2), insisted on a new style of lettering on the coin, on changes in the detail of Thomas Jefferson's head on the obverse, on Artist Felix Schlag's redesigning the reverse so as to show Jefferson's home Monticello in front view instead...
...ship's wake into Ground Radio Chief Charles Perrine's receivers at Flushing, L. I. In the plane, Radio Engineer Richard R. Stoddart adjusted the length of the trailing antenna, controlled at will the direction of the radio beam he was transmitting. He had achieved in the design of his transmitter an efficiency formerly impossible in airplane radio...
...Nagy thought long before he decided to let the public examine them. But visitors who studied explanations of the work, discovered that the exhibit made sense, got a good insight into the methods by which Moholy-Nagy and his associates hope to revitalize U. S. architecture and U. S. design...
...Theobald Galleries Ende had his first one-man show, consisting of four oils, 19 drawings, four etchings. Member of a group of young Munich artists who have developed a type of surrealist symbolism, in which the trappings of 19th-Century romantic painting are employed as elements of fantastic design, Ende was making a name for himself when the Nazis came into power, slapped his work into the Degenerate Art show...