Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lumbering across the floor at General Electric's Schenectady plant. As Mosher flexed his arms, the monster climbed a stack of heavy timbers to pose like a circus elephant with one foreleg held in the air. A flick of Mosher's wrist swung a 6½-ft. metal leg in an arc and sent the timbers flying. Another flick and the foreleg playfully kicked sand at watching newsmen...
Thus last week, Engineer Mosher introduced CAM, G.E.'s "Cybernetic Anthropomorphous Machine." Unlike the usual robot, the walking machine has limbs that respond to the actual movements of its human operator's arms and legs. Driven by hydraulic pressure and controlled by servomechanisms, the metal muscles exert far more force than their human counterparts. But they are attached to a sensitive feedback system that gently lets the handler "feel" what the metal limbs are doing...
...officers had storm helmets, most had gas masks. Patrolmen from Somerville carried large metal shields, and several from other forces carried rifles...
Like many another metal, lead is a cumulative poison. The human body can dispose of the minute quantities that it ingests in food and water. But any unnatural overload piles up, causing abdominal cramps ("painter's colic"), lassitude, irritability, vomiting and twitching. In severe cases, the victim may lapse into a coma. Prolonged lead poisoning damages the brain so insidiously that its effects may not be evident for years...
...regulate the engine's idling speed. It was designed in plastic, which enabled production engineers to hold down tooling costs. The trouble was that the cam broke off on some vehicles and dropped into the throttle linkage, jamming the accelerator. The company is now substituting a stronger, metal-reinforced...