Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the initial composition on film by the new method is faster than conventional typesetting, the slowness of the photoengraving process tends to cut down the time saved. But the Graphic Arts Foundation, subsidized by 139 newspaper, magazine and book publishers, hopes to speed up photoengraving by further research. Until then, photo composition's chief value will be in offset and gravure printing...
Dutch Engineer Cornelis Pot, 64, arrived in Manhattan last week with a slightly different solution. For Pot, the old scale was still serviceable: the trouble lay in the way it was put to paper, with a confusion of sharps, flats and keys. In his Klavarscribo method ("marvelously simple, simply marvelous," says Pot happily), all of that is eliminated by indicating notes (and measures) on vertical lines that correspond to the keys of the piano, black notes for black keys, white for white...
...last week, Boston's radioactive, midget had chain-reacted into a million-a-year business. Tracerlab's shy, ascetic president, William E. Barbour Jr., 39, announced that with the new "Beta Gauge," an atomic method to help control production by measuring the thickness of industrial products, Tracerlab had moved from a laboratory-type company into an industrial...
...need no alteration and have a money-back guarantee." The voice of the mannequin, developed by Audio-Visual Advertising Co., comes from a loudspeaker concealed inside the chest, and is synchronized with lip movements. Price: $284. ¶ Illinois Institute of Technology's Armour Research Foundation announced a cheap method for adding sound to 8-and 16-mm. home movies by putting magnetic material along the edge of the film to make a sound track. With a special sound adapter on his projector, the amateur may dub in a commentary, though he won't be able to record sound...
...method of undersea detection, highly developed in World War II, employing easily focused high-frequency sound waves near the upper edge of the audible range. A large object in the water sends back an echo; its distance from the submarine is computed by timing the echo...