Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ Precision-Built Homes Corp. will offer 40 models priced from $3,700 to $10,000. President F. Vaux Wilson Jr. shuns the word "prefabrication" (as does many another company), proudly points out that Precision-Built will build according to architect's plans selected by individual customers. Builder Wilson...
Over and above their classroom value, the models are masterpieces of precision. Skillfully and accurately they depict the kind of lives led by those who are supposed to be their inhabitants. Character, social and financial status, frame of mind can be determined by a close examinations of the settings, and...
G.C.A. is made up of two microwave radar systems. The first is a rotating search beam: it is a modification of the two-dimensional radar used during the war to warn against the approach of enemy planes. Function of the search system is to find the approaching aircraft, and guide...
The precision system is the heart of G.C.A. It consists of two radars which "scan" the approach area with fixed antennae. The elevation beam shows the plane's altitude and its rate of descent. The azimuth beam shows the direction of the plane's approach and its distance...
It takes five trained operators to run G.C.A. Two work on the rotating search beam-one as general policeman for all air traffic in the area and one to guide individual planes into precision range. The three precision system operators follow the plane's altitude, check its distance from...