Word: disks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Daily News. It picked some names from the phone book, then decided to "chase around to barrooms, nightclubs and restaurants where most of the people were." Among those quoted in the first News survey: two all-night restaurant proprietors, the owner of a nightclub, Jimmy Durante, a disk jockey and Sammy Fuchs, the unofficial "mayor" of the Bowery...
...adolescent worshiper of Crooner Johnny Ray, the Mossadegh of music, hurried to a friend to confide: "The guy went clear out on this one-he sounds like he really broke up." Other devotees, sharp enough to sniff a burlesque on their idol, launched an avalanche of protests at hilarious disk jockeys and at Capitol Records...
...Tobey (see MEDICINE), who had his first big taste of television as a Kefauver crimebuster, was still going strong on the air waves. Last week, after a stint on television as mystery guest on What's My Line and narrator on Crime Syndicated, he turned to radio as disk jockey for a recorded program, laced with Tobey sermonettes and hymns, for Washington's WGMS, and as narrator for a youngsters' bedtime program on WGAY in Silver Spring...
Supermanometer. The Fischer & Porter Co. of Hatboro, Pa. has an electrically operated pressure gauge (manometer) that it claims is far more sensitive than any competitor. Invented by Swedish-born Frederick C. Melchior, it has four disk-shaped pressure chambers like those of ordinary aneroid barometers. But the movements of the disks in response to changes of pressure do not swing a dial needle. They are read, instead, by an electrical device that detects very small movements. Used as an altimeter, the instrument flashes a red light when raised three inches off a table...
...electronic computers. Instead of working laboriously, one character at a time, it prints whole lines at once, 300 lines per minute, on a paper band. It takes its information from the coded magnetic tape that races out of the computer. Heart of the machine is a continuously spinning disk with the necessary letters and numbers on its rim. The machine's electronic innards translate the magnetic dots on the tape into groups of characters, 80 for each line. As the disk revolves, 80 electrically operated hammers tap the back of the paper against an inked ribbon in contact with...