Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ensuing chain reaction has changed modern society. Over the span of 60 years, Bell Labs has generated 21,000 patents, one for each of the institution's working days and then some. More than mere inventions, the patents cover breakthroughs that have launched entire industries--developments such as the transistor, the solar cell and satellite TV. Meanwhile, scientists at Bell have raked in seven Nobel prizes and, in the process, inspired some legends...
...American mind, the future itself is the wilderness to be settled. The U.S. still works frontiers, finding new channels, inventing new lives. By its explorations in the realms of individual and social freedoms, America is making what historians may eventually consider its greatest contribution to the modern...
...unlike the overwhelming machines of Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, Department 260's equipment is mostly nonthreatening, with sometimes vexing personalities. "Mamma mia, ti prego comincia a lavorare! (Please, start working!)" implores Mechanic Bruno Lockner to one balky contraption. "This machine understands Italian," he jokes. Some machines have names. Clarabelle is a complex wonder that churns out 1,000 crossbar assemblies an hour. It was designed by Allen-Bradley engineers, and is tended by 18-year veteran Employee Cheryl Braddock. Says Braddock: "I talk to her every morning. I pat her on the side. I say, 'It's going...
...novel rode out of Spain on the horse and donkey of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and the modern short story had its early masters in Russia, France and England. But the hard-boiled detective was born in America. His popularity has remained in force for half a century. He can be seen on countless shelves of paperbacks and hardcovers, and he has appeared on prime time since the first vacuum tube was plugged in. The TV series Spenser: For Hire and Mike Hammer are two of his latest hangouts. As he was in the films...
From the start, the genre has taken shape and tone from the demands of its audience. The American male likes to believe that he is reading it like it is, and the novel of the modern knight-errant is very much a male genre. It operates on the rigid belief that the world is rotten; to think otherwise is dangerous and unmanly. A corollary view is that the deck is stacked against the decent little guy or distressed damsel. The evidence often seems overwhelming. The shattering aftereffects of World War I, the rise of organized crime during Prohibition, the disillusionment...