Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impossible if the set used vacuum tubes, but all it has is a single transistor, which needs only a faint current. When the speaker's voice makes the microphone vibrate, it generates enough current to operate the transistor and put the voice on the air. The present model, small enough to fit in a telephone mouthpiece, can transmit 600 ft. Later models, says George Bryan, developer of the set, should be good for a full mile...
...first full-scale exhibition of six centuries of German drawing ever put together in one show opened this week in Washington's National Gallery, first stop in a cross-country tour of four major U.S. cities. To show the whole range of German drawing, from medieval guild model books to 20th century Germany's Käthe Kollwitz, the West German government assembled 153 key works from 26 German museums and collectors. The result proves that though German artists rarely top the rich palettes of Italian painters or outdo the French in taste and elegance, as superb draftsmen...
Fast & Cheap. The Edgelea school is a new thing in schools: a prefabricated job built to rival the conventional school building. It was put up as a pilot model by National Homes Corp., the nation's largest builder of prefabricated homes, in only 21 working days after its foundation was poured. Cost per classroom: $18,500. Conventional school buildings take from twelve to 18 months to construct, cost an average of $37,000 a classroom...
Indonesia to Italy. The U.S. debut on the Danube followed a similar success a fortnight ago in Stockholm. There, the prize U.S. attraction was a handsomely furnished, California-style model home, filled with 370 appliances. Last week Yankee salesmanship was also proving just as effective at Djakarta's Indonesian International Fair. More than 30,000 visitors a day poured through the gates to see the first TV show ever broadcast in Indonesia...
...worth of products, sent top executives off to teach businessmen overseas how to sell to the U.S. Reflecting support from all segments of the economy, the U.S. next month at New Delhi will show the biggest atoms-for-peace exhibit ever assembled, in November will spread a model farm over 175 acres outside Addis Ababa...