Word: oerlikons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...machine is a considerable improvement on similar prewar devices, which were restricted to taking messages of less than 30 seconds. A German invention, it was developed during the war by Ernst Keller, a young ballistics expert for the Swiss company which made the famed Oerlikon antiaircraft gun. He worked out an elaborate system of acoustic relays for translating the instructions given the machine into its robot responses...
About 80 Ipsophones (rented at $35 per month) are now in use by Swiss firms. Last week their manufacturer (Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon), just removed from a blacklist of firms which helped the Nazis, was laying plans to market the Ipsophone throughout the world...
...under any nickname, Penelope* never took an enemy attack lying down. In 24 days of action her own guns fired 35,000 6-in. shells, 6,500 4-in., 20,000 two-pounders and 8,000 20-mm. Oerlikon shells...
...Plastic petroleum, developed by Gulf Oil for business machines, now lubricates the magazines of the Oerlikon 20-mm. rapid-fire gun. Reason: it stays soft, sticks to metal at arctic and tropic temperatures...
...blown in the sick bay. The blast blew everyone around and I just about passed out. Mac got blown to pieces. The water poured in and the backwash washed me right out through that hole. Another gunboat came steaming in and picked me up. They laid me beside an Oerlikon gun and the row was awful. Jeeze, that gun left me in a daze, and I passed out. About 4 p.m. I woke up, seeing the top of a cliff. I asked one of the gunners: "Holy Jesus, we're pretty near home?" He said: "Home...