Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speed Test. First client of the center was Westinghouse Electric Corp., and its problem was how to design a new kind of transformer. The customary method is to build an experimental model and see how it works when parts of its design are changed slightly. This would cost, Westinghouse figures, about $15,000. The computer can do the same job estimating the effects of different kinds of coils, metals and insulating material for about...
...craft: Boeing Airplane Co.'s Model 707, the first jet-powered transport plane ever built...
...Question. With a model already built, Boeing has won itself a long head start on the rest of the industry in the jet transport race. The credit goes to Boeing's brilliant corps of engineers and to Bill Allen, the dry, deceptively plain lawyer who became Boeing's president (and custodian of the cactus) in 1945. Allen is the man who gave the final go-ahead for Boeing to spend $20 million on the 707, gambling that he could sell it to the Air Force and the airlines. With Air Force orders in the offing, Bill Allen...
needed a bigger, faster bomber. By 1943 Boeing provided that, too. Boeing's 6-29 Superfortress was twice as heavy as the latest model of its sister 6-17, and had a range of more than 3,500 miles...
...MERGER between Simca and Ford of France will result in the biggest privately owned French auto company, topped only by the government-owned Renault works. Under the deal, Simca will acquire Ford's modern operating plant at Poissy, near Paris, continue to make Ford's small Vedette model...