Word: plated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside, a portrait of the blond, blue-eyed proprietress smiles down from above the hearth at the waiters rushing between nine tables and an array of smorgasbord in the middle of the room. When the aroma and the candlelight have created the proper mood, grab a plate and sample the display of food. "Take all you can eat, but eat all you take," is the menu's advice. Ignore...
Automatic Toll-Taker. New Jersey's Garden State Parkway is using a robot toll-taker that collects fares directly from motorists, corrects improper payments, sounds an alarm if a motorist fails to ante up properly, and has a camera that snaps a picture of the rear license plate if a car tries to get by without paying the toll...
LELAND HAZARD, vice president of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY...
...conventional TV picture tube, whose monstrous bubble of vacuum is responsible for most of the bulk of the TV cabinet, may be on its way out. Electronics men have long dreamed of shrinking the tube to a flat plate not much bigger than the picture. The latest Electronics describes one such tube. Designed by the Electronics Division of Willys Motors, it is in an advanced experimental stage (see diagram...
...these plates carries the proper electrical charge, it deflects the electron beam downward. On their way down the electrons pass horizontal deflection plates and are turned sharply against the forward glass plate, which carries a picture-forming phosphor. When the voltage on both sets of deflection plates is changed simultaneously, the electron beam scans the phosphor, sweeping across it and producing a TV picture...