Word: glareless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grimy Greek statuary and the faded photos of French cathedrals are on their way out and the archaic benches will be removed in favor of a sleek, specially designed desk chair. By spring, Henry Hobson Richardson's building will sport an interior in soft pastel shades, humming with glareless fluorescent lights...
...busy laboratory, Dr. Land developed Polaroid lenses and sunglasses, three-dimensional movies in natural color (not yet ready to market), and a system of Polaroid automobile headlights and visors for glareless night driving. But since the superbrilliant lights used in the Polaroid system would require equipping all the 33,225,000 cars on the road at the same time, the system made little headway. Nevertheless, with such new products as the camera and filter screens for television sets, Polaroid is finally in the black and hopes to stay there...
Gadgets have helped: new machines for anesthetics; easily tilted operating tables; glareless, heatless, shadowless operating-room lights; new sutures, like those made of the rare metal tantalum, to replace cat gut* for certain operations...
...simple coating that makes glass and other materials nonreflecting-and virtually invisible. Restricted to military uses for the duration, it will provide the postwar world with such useful things as: spectacle lenses that will cut out bright-light reflections for their wearer and be almost invisible to others; glareless car windshields; more visible dashboards and instrument panels; store windows, showcases, picture frames, watch crystals and clockfaces so clear that the glass is invisible;-faster camera lenses, producing sharper pictures; clearer movies and television...