Word: kodak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ultrafax, by RCA out of Eastman Kodak Co., is a hybrid variety of facsimile transmission. It combines features of both television and photography. The material to be sent (text, writing, pictures, diagrams) must first be photographed on a strip of movie film. Using a kind of modified television technique, the film is "scanned" by a "flying spot" of light. At the receiving station another flying spot reproduces the material on another strip of film. When Ultrafax is really rolling, said Sarnoff, it can transmit 1,000,000 words a minute...
...year of total war. The reasons: 1) Congress had been laggard with money (it had supplied only 9% of the needed $3 billion funds); 2) the board itself had hesitated to deprive industry of any goods in short supply. Now, said Hargrave (who is president of Eastman Kodak Co.), the time had come to think less of industry and more of national security. Said he: "Industry can afford to undergo a certain amount of detriment...
...range of materials and sizes. In addition, alterations for the hard-to-fit customer cost retailers 6% of their gross. Why not work out a method to eliminate alterations? To Booth the answer was photography-in effect, an application of the Bertillon system. He took the idea to Eastman Kodak Co., which developed the PhotoMetric camera, which anyone can operate...
...quiet announcement from the National Military Establishment Munitions Board last week gave U.S. industry a minor shock. Said Board Chairman*Thomas J. Hargrave, president of Eastman Kodak Co.: the first steps toward industrial mobilization of U.S. plants for war have been taken. The new program bore the jawbreaking name of "Allocation of Private Industrial Capacity for Procurement Planning of the Armed Services"-or APICPPAS, for short...
Last August the Government charged Technicolor and Eastman Kodak Co., which the Government charges has cross-licensing agreements with Technicolor, with conspiracy to monopolize the industry. But Dr. Kalmus does not profess to be worried about the suit. He insists that his color processes are well known and no secret. Said he: "The only secret knowledge we have is know-how and you can't break up know-how by court order...