Word: photonics
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...than a year one small, daily newspaper on Boston's South Shore has used in its regular operations one of the most revolutionary innovations in the printing business in the past 75 years. The Quincy Patriot Ledger, with a circulation of 44,000, is the paper. The innovation is Photon--a process for setting type photographically, rather than through the use of any hot metal casting system...
...present the Ledger has only two Photon machines, but it is so satisfied with their performance in composing the editorial page and some advertising lay-outs that it is already planning to replace all its conventional hot metal type-casting machines, generally known by the trade name of Linotype, with Photon machines...
...Ledger is not the only organization which wants the new machine. Some 125 different groups, including the Crimson have obtained options for Photon, which was developed and manufactured in a small factory on Charles Street near Kenmore Square...
...first glance, the Photon machine looke like a compact IBM-type computing machine. It has only three major components: a standard Underwood electric typewriter, a telephone relay system, and a photographing unit. Its basic difference from the conventional method of hot-metal type-setting are two. The keyboard of a typecaster is big and complex. Photon uses the keyboard of a standard electric typewriter. And secondly, the end product is different. The old machine casts individual lines of type. Photon, on the other hand, actually sets no type. It simply reproduces, on film, type in any style and size...
...photon counters radioed their findings back to White Sands. The emulsions and most of the films exposed by the other instruments were recovered undamaged from the wreck of the rocket's nose section. Now they are being studied by specialists who will make reports in a few months on the latest news dragged down so laboriously from space...