Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...response to the proper command (either remembered or coming from outside), the numbers are "read off" electrically. They zip through the machine as coded electrical pulses. Basically the process is similar to a man's pulling a telephone number out of his memory and spinning it on a dial...
...grade iron ore deposits in the U.S. will last 40 years, lower-grade ore some 600 years. Moulton also expects new deposits to be discovered. New techniques will further stretch existing supplies. Example: gas turbines are so cheap and efficient that one day a turbine the size of a dial telephone may power the American automobile...
TOMORROW WE REAP (384 pp.)-James Street <& James Childers-Dial...
...test, one electrode is placed against the abdomen, the other inserted into the vagina. If the patient has cancer in the genital tract (or is pregnant, or has certain nonmalignant tumors), the needle on the microvoltmeter dial swings to the left of the center line. If not, it swings toward the right. At Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, cancer was detected in 74 out of 75 cases of women found by other tests to have cancer. Of 616 women shown to have no cancer by the test, only five were later found actually to have the disease. The Burr-Langman...
...Morgan first appeared on the wireless scene over a decade ago directly behind 710 on your dial, --if your dial happened to be in the vicinity of New York city. His efforts there, for WOR, were better documented than rewarded. Since then rivals have stolen his jokes but very few sponsors have paid for them...