Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loudspeaker, trumpet, siren, search-light, and assorted student outcries marked the coming of Election Day in the Lowell House small courtyard last night...
Charged Powder. The "revolution" was electronic "dry writing," or Xerography.* The complicated process was based on the long known fact that some materials are "photoconductive," i.e., become conductors of electricity when exposed to light. Xerography uses such a plate charged with static electricity. When the plate is exposed to light, the charge is released from all parts of the plate except those shaded by the image to be reproduced. The plate is then dusted with a charged powder which clings to the shaded, or image, part of the plate. When a piece of paper (or any other material) is placed...
...expected to retail "for a very few hundred dollars," will be for the quick, economical reproduction of letters, documents, blueprints, maps, etc., in offices. Many bugs have to be worked out before Xerography can do more. Eventually, Haloid hopes to produce cameras which print their photographs almost instantaneously, and light, cheap presses which will slash capital investments and operating costs in the newspaper and magazine publishing industry...
...fingers (no typewriter needed). Raymond Loewy Associates drafted a more efficient streetcar rider. He had a head with a hook for straphanging, and a spiked nose to hold newspapers. Another idea: an efficient carpenter with a ripsaw nose, who merely plugged his head in to the nearest light socket, so he couldn't forget his tools...
Actual voting will be heavy among the Faculty and graduate students, light at the College, and sparse at Radcliffe. Of the Faculty, over 95 percent expect to vote tomorrow...