Word: discs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lake of Jade. Seen from the air, the crater itself seems a lake of green jade shaped like a splashy star and set in a sere disc of burnt vegetation half a mile wide. From close up the "lake" is a glistening incrustation of blue-green glass 2,400 ft. in diameter, formed when the molten soil solidified in air. The glass takes strange shapes-lopsided marbles, knobbly sheets a quarter-inch thick, broken, thin-walled bubbles, green, wormlike forms...
...Ghilini, professional magician, exposer of spiritualistic fakes and amateur art collector (TIME, Oct. 14, 1940). After five years of experiments, in his garage and (after the neighbors complained) in a Beverly Hills furniture store, Di Ghilini developed a recording machine which embosses (presses) a sound groove in a disc instead of cutting it, which is the accepted current method. His embossing system makes it possible to run a record at much slower speed than on the usual phonograph...
Result: his Lincoln Recorder plays five and a half hours of a talking record or three hours of high-fidelity music on one side of a 16-in. disc. There are other important advantages: surface scratching is virtually eliminated, and a record can be embossed and played back on a simple home machine...
Crescent's Morden and Ertegun, who are putting out a 1,200-disc reissue this week, have enthusiastic plans for new Ory recordings this spring. Meanwhile the Kid, already expert on the five-string banjo, guitar, alto saxophone, trumpet and bass, is taking piano lessons. Mulling over his future, he concluded: "Now that I've got me a good Dixieland band, I'm going to try and play as long as I hold...
Only one big novelty in record manufacturing was contemplated for postwar production: a new disc made from vinylite or other plastic, which will be 1) lighter in weight, 2) superior in surface qualities, 3) practically unbreakable...