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...Printing Developments, Inc. to handle the distribution of products developed by our Springdale Laboratories, notably two new types of lithographic plates and the Electronic Scanner. Last month P.D.I. completed negotiations for building a new electroplating plant at Racine, Wis., to meet the demand from U.S. and Canadian lithographers for these hard-metal, offset plates, the "Lithure" and the "Lithengrave...
...sale"board, resembling a stock broker's quotation board, tells both customer and ticket agent what space is available for a one-week period on as many as 23 different trains. Then a special card, representing the passenger's choice of space, is passed through an electronic scanner that prints the Pullman ticket automatically. Elapsed time: two minutes. To accommodate customers ordering reservations from other locations, Pennsy has a photoelectric wire system connecting 30th Street with other ticket offices in Philadelphia and Wilmington. When the scanner prints the ticket, Western Union's "Ticketfax" sends out a facsimile...
...machine called the Arithmometer, about the size of a table radio, has been developed at Boston Blood Grouping Laboratory to count the cells in a patient's blood. Using a simple mechanical scanner, it is more accurate than the fallible human eye and brain, reduces the count time from five minutes to a minute...
...adolescent audience. Many adult viewers are soon lost in its trackless, pseudo-technical doubletalk ("Forty-seven degrees inclination, speed seven miles per second; temperature calibrated at zero three; interior pressure stable at nine oh nine"), or by the sudden mid-program appearance on Captain Video's "Scanner" of a five-minute stretch of western movie. Du Mont's Vice President James L. Caddigan, who created Captain Video in 1949, explains: "The western is there to give us the pace and action that we can't get in a live studio production. The hero of the western...
...scanner is in its experimental stage, but it has already produced some interesting results - especially in bringing out the depths in dark colors. You can judge its work for yourself by examining closely the large center spread of paintings in next week's color insert...