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...purchase, assemble and operate a first-class hi-fi set, a man once had to have the patience of Job, the funds of Croesus and the genius of Edison. In order to find just the right amplifier (power unit), preamplifier (the one with all those knobs), turntable (where the records spin), tuner (hifi for FM radio) and speakers, he had to compare the wares of a large range of component part companies, shell out as much as $1,500, and spend as long as a week hooking all the parts together. The only alternative was a cheap portable phonograph that...
...from Edison. The space technicians have also found countless new uses for old products. Thomas Edison in 1883 developed the world's most heat-resistant material-pyrolytic graphite-but it languished until researchers began to coat nose cones with it to resist high re-entry heat. Next month California's Super Temp Corp. and Tar Card Co will begin marketing $8.95 tobacco pipes lined with pyrolytic graphite. The fuel cell, which generates power by converting hydrogen and oxygen into electricity and water, was a laboratory curiosity until General Electric put it in Gemini. Now General Dynamics is using...
Dividing his crowded days among business, education and culture. Carter serves as a director of Pacific TelePhone & Telegraph, Northrop, Southern California Edison, United-California Bank and Western Bancorporation, as a trustee of the Brookings Institution and Occidental College and as a director of the Stanford Research Institute. Though his rimless glasses and whisper-quiet voice give him the air of a professor (he once declined an offer from the Harvard Business School to become one), Carter is still a shrewd salesman. When he was asked to raise 12 million to help build the Los Angeles Art Museum, he persuaded...
Dams are needed for hydroelectricity and to create water reservoirs. New York's Consolidated Edison Co. is seeking to build a storage facility on Storm King Mountain overlooking the Hudson 55 miles north of Manhattan; the Army Corps of Engineers has plans to dam Alaska's Yukon River at Rampart Canyon into a lake the size of New Jersey that could water the U.S. West Coast...
Died. Murray Ireland, 72, president from 1954 to '60 of McGraw-Edison's Toastmaster division, a designer-engineer who in 1925 adapted for domestic use a bulky device formerly found only in restaurants, which lowered a slice of bread, grilled it, and at just the right moment popped it up, golden brown (or black), bringing sales of untold millions over the next 39 years; of a heart attack; in Elgin...