Word: pushbutton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...form screens to give the patient privacy. With the help of a "grab bar," he can slide from bed to toilet without putting weight on his legs. Though the flushing unit is designed for 12-volt D.C. operation, it can also work on standard house and hospital A.C. A pushbutton activates a mechanism for pumping 81 gallons of deodorant, disinfectant flushing solution -enough, say the manufacturers, for 80 or more uses. Its convenience, they say, extends beyond hospitals and other institutions to the private home (if it can afford the unit price of $495) where a family member is convalescent...
...heavy-truck companies are developing increasingly sophisticated new equipment. Chevrolet showed off a turbine engine last week at the Manhattan convention of the American Trucking Association, though the current high cost of turbines may delay their widespread introduction for some time. Trucks are now equipped with air conditioning, pushbutton windows, transistor radios, bucket seats and adjustable steering wheels. Most big trucks carry beds with innerspring mattresses for the alternate driver; companies are planning to add bathrooms, pantries and even TV before long...
...notes at the top of the keyboard to expand the sound range of the standard piano (from 27.5 to 4,186 cycles per second) to come closer to the range of the human ear (from approximately 16 to 20,000 cycles). Her most far-reaching innovation is a pushbutton electronic system whereby the pianist can play from two to twelve notes simultaneously by striking one key. In effect, she says, this device "will give the player 30 fingers." It will also allow the piano to be "programmed" like a computer, multiplying its creative potential for modern composers, whose interest...
...crux of their arguments for change comes down to the fact that the Soviet economy has grown too complex and sophisticated to be efficiently manipulated by pushbutton from Moscow. The economic reformers are not out to undermine Communism but to improve its efficiency. Nonetheless, the solutions they have proposed are distinctly Western: the use of profits on invested capital as the single best indicator of factory performance, flexible prices responding to the market forces of supply and demand-and, of all things, charging interest on the use of government money by shops and factories...
...yellow shafts of light from all-night offices. The telegram business still accounts for more than half of the company's revenues, but it is dwindling along with the poles and messengers. Venerable Western Union is transforming itself into a new kind of telecommunications giant, using the latest pushbutton automation to provide a range of services as broad as electronic wizardry allows. This week, from the top of its 24-story brick-pile headquarters in lower Manhattan, the company will inaugurate its biggest diversification yet: a 7,500-mile $80 million transcontinental microwave system that will transmit teletype, telephone...