Word: servo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tinkerer who started out in a small basement shop 16 years ago, Lyngsø credits the gadget with cutting down the proliferation of meetings that have come with the growth of his own firm, Søren T. Lyngsø, Dansk Servo Teknik, to two plants and 160 employees. He finds that the machine starts saving money even before conferences start: nowadays his managers whenever possible skip calling meetings rather than watch the machine add up the cost...
...said the U.N. had been partly responsible for "an abatement of the Cold War in recent years. The emergence of nonaligned nations has helped servo as a bridge. The presence of a group uncommitted to a belief in the superiority of either economic system has served to soften debate...
Make a Fist. When the patient contracts a muscle in his arm, just as if he intended to make a fist, the servo-electric system relays the signals and his artificial hand clenches in a fist. The lightweight arm is so versatile that the wearer can unscrew a light bulb, lift weights up to 9 lbs., and bend every knuckle on every finger...
...SERVO CORP. OF AMERICA at Hicksville, N.Y., produces infra-red fire-detection systems for aircraft as well as hotbox detectors, which are placed beside rail tracks to sense an overheated wheel bearing as it passes, warn maintenance crews of hotboxes. The Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. installed 17 such detectors for around $400.000. reckons it saves more than that amount each year in labor costs...