Word: photoflash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smaller Strobe Light. The first self-contained electronic photoflash unit was introduced by Minneapolis-Honeywell's Heiland division. Instead of the usual bulky power unit dangling from a photographer's shoulder, the 35-oz. "Futuramic Strobonar" attaches to any camera equipped with speedlight synchronization. is powered by three size D batteries or ordinary household current. Price...
...this Administration than previously. He has sold some dispensable, scattered public lands, and he and Secretary of Agriculture Benson sometimes stepped in to prevent wanton timbering on the public domain. McKay also protected the world's last 28 whooping cranes by blocking an Air Force plan to practice night photoflash bombing near the cranes' refuge...
...keep as much as $33 million of Sylvania's overgrown sales. Instead, he chalked up $69 million in the first postwar year, $95 million in the next, kept boosting sales until last year they passed the wartime peak. To Sylvania's original lines-incandescent bulbs, radio tubes, photoflash bulbs and radios-he added television sets and tubes...