Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...client has mathematicians of his own, he can take home a "patch panel": a metal rectangle containing hundreds of small, marked holes. By connecting the proper holes with plug-in wires, he translates his problem into language that the computer can understand. When the panel is inserted in the Princeton machine, the computer gets to work at once; numbers flash rapidly across a glass screen, and spidery arms push electronic pens up the peaks and down into the valleys of a long graph. A correct reading of the graph tells the answer...
...Manhattan last week, Columbia University's School of Dental and Oral Surgery announced a new, virtually painless dental drill, the Cavitron. Designed to replace the nerve-wracking metal burr, the pencil-shaped Cavitron is quieter and quicker...
...Bakeries Co.), were written by Amy. To keep her weight down, Amy lived on orange juice, water and buttermilk during the shooting; to counter the hot lights on the set, she took 50,000 units of vitamin A each day; to avoid disconcerting her audience by flashes from the metal inlays in her teeth, she had them all replaced with plastic...
Automatic Detective. An ultrasonic inspector of metal parts that follows instructions recorded on magnetic tape was put into operation by Sperry Products at General Motors Allison Division. Like a doctor with a stethoscope, "Simac" looks for defects in rotor forgings by automatically moving to specified checkpoints and "listening" to the metal. Price...
TRADE WITH CHINA is being pushed hard by Britain, which has issued a new list of "nonstrategic" items that can be exported. Among Britain's allowable exports: metal-working machinery, conveyers, mathematical and drawing instruments, antibiotics...