Word: preset
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Drive-It. Perfect Circle Corp. has developed a speed-control device which automatically drives a car at a steady, preset speed. Planned as optional equipment on 1958 Chryslers, Speedostat electrically links the foot-throttle, carburetor and transmission to a dashboard dial on which the driver sets the speed he wants. In emergencies, he can instantly break automatic control by touching the brake pedal...
...introduced on Aug. 27) and a car that cost Ford $250 million to get ready for production, is no radical car of the future. Yet it has enough new gadgets to intrigue most motorists, e.g., an elaborate dashboard whose speedometer glows red when the car reaches a preset speed, an automatic transmission with buttons in the center of the steering wheel. The engine will be a V-8 with a horsepower rating around...
...well as children. Among the startlers: "The Brain" ($11.95), a missile-shooting, robot-manned car with an electronic circuit built into the robot's head, put out by St. Louis' Jay V. Zimmerman Co., and remote-controlled buses and boats imported from Japan. "The Brain" can be preset to scoot about, turn and dodge on its preordered course, and fire its plastic missiles automatically. The buses and boats can be started, stopped and turned right or left by radio signals from more than 25 ft. away...
...find where in the world he is by celestial star sights, a process that involves only himself, his sextant and the heavenly bodies. Last week New York's Kollsman Instrument Corp. gave the ancient science of celestial navigation a modern twist, announced a new sextant that, once preset, will seek out the proper star or planet, average a series of sights, and flash its readings by remote control to the navigator. With a three-star fix, he can pinpoint the position of his aircraft within two miles under normal flight conditions. But the big advantage lies in the fact...
...Automatic Factory. Businessmen already envision a day when the brains will be used not only for paperwork problems, but to operate factories, to run auto production lines or any plant where a process can be reduced to a preset, repetitive system. Swiftly and obediently, the big robot will start and stop production lines, supervise all the machines, correct faulty workmanship, inspect the finished product, package it and ship it out to U.S. consumers...