Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does multiplication, cross-addition, cross-subtraction and division electronically for the first time in business-machine history. The show also had many other new gadgets. Among them: ¶Dictaphone has a light (20-lb.), portable, plug-in model ($350) which records 15 minutes of dictation on envelope-sized plastic belts, so light that five can be mailed in a 3? envelope. ¶SoundScriber's dictating machine ($637.69) has a wafer-thin, Vinylite plastic record which can be erased and used over again by putting it in a machine which heats and whirls it for 29 seconds. ¶Thomas Mechanical...
Later, in Boston's Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Plastic Surgeon Edgar M. Holmes loosened her tongue (held fast by scar tissue), closed the hole in the roof of her mouth, replaced the bones in the nose by a graft from the hip bone. In a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Holmes reported on the outcome of the case...
...type of toy-the remote-controlled gadgets. They include a windup auto controlled by a long wire ($2.29), an electric truck operated by a 35-ft. cord ($39.50) and Erector's new $50 set to build a mechanical man that actually walks. Most complex of all is a plastic canal with hand-operated locks and boats which are propelled by electrified bars along the side...
Realist's Delight. Another new item this year is a plastic dollhouse, some of whose walls are conveniently missing, and whose rooms are outfitted with tiny plastic furniture ($8.95), complete with television...
Glass Sandwich. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. announced a new "folding glass," that can be collapsed like an accordion. It is made of thick glass sections joined together by a flexible airtight plastic. First use: in large, full-vision rear windows in the '49 Hudson convertible...