Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria one day last week, big wheels of the U.S. publishing industry watched a research engineer photograph a colleague. Just 45 seconds later, the engineer handed them a photograph, "developed" without a darkroom, chemicals, negative, or sensitized paper...
Then came another wonder. A small, light press printed text and pictures at 1,200 feet of paper a minute without any fluid ink or rollers. Said one publisher: "This looks like the beginning of a revolution...
...plate is exposed to light, the charge is released from all parts of the plate except those shaded by the image to be reproduced. The plate is then dusted with a charged powder which clings to the shaded, or image, part of the plate. When a piece of paper (or any other material) is placed over it and charged, the powder leaps to the paper, thus reproduces the image. Heat fuses the powder to the paper...
After trying their hand at improving everything from paper clips to superliners, U.S. industrial designers finally got around to their fellow beings. At a Manhattan meeting of the Society of Industrial Designers last week, they held a contest to design a "functional man," or, as they put it, "an animal which would be a better solution to the very environmental problems which man has created...
Died. Wilfred Meynell, 95, poet, essayist, discoverer of drug-addict Poet Francis Thompson; in Pulborough, England. With his poet-wife, the late Alice Meynell, he founded and for twelve years edited the literary review Merry England. In 1888, he received some verses written on blue sugar-bag paper by the starving Thompson, printed the contributions, rescued and cared for the poet for 19 years...