Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stage akin to when the first lathe did a reasonable job on a hunk of metal. But machine vision has as important a role in automated assembly as human vision has for assembly by humans...
Ever since the city fathers of Florence ordered up brass cannon and iron balls in 1326 to defend themselves against the city of Lucca, in the first recorded use of explosive-powered metal artillery, gunsmiths have been trying to perfect their weapons. Guns have improved over the centuries-in range, accuracy and deadliness-but their firepower has always depended on the rapid expansion of exploding gases down a tube, which pushes the bullet forward. The maximum speed such gases-and thus the gun's projectile too -can reach is severely constrained. None of the particles in the gases...
...make sure that a story did not dally in its progress from writer to printing plant, a "flow chart" was set up outside the office of Managing Editor Ray Cave. By watching color-coded magnetic squares on a gridlike metal board, editors were able to track their copy as it proceeded through the various stages of TIME'S editorial process: writing, editing, checking, re-editing, copyreading, proofreading and fitting. The last story cleared the board at 2:31 p.m. Wednesday, 29 minutes ahead of its final deadline. Said Leliévre: "There is no room for error...
...mood could not have been more businesslike. The advance guard of as many as 500 Reaganites who were soon to be working on the transition checked into nine floors of a drab eleven-story M Street office building, where it found rooms sparsely furnished with gray metal desks. Doors bore hand-lettered signs identifying the functions of the people who would be occupying the offices (congressional liaison, agricultural task force) but not yet their names. In the seventh-floor mail room, nine volunteers sorted sacks of letters addressed to Reagan into 100-odd cubbyholes. The largest...
This is also the city that brought us Mayor Ralph Perk, who in late 1975, while using a blowtorch to snip a metal ribbon at the opening of a local steel mill, accidentally slipped and torched all the hair off his scalp...