Word: soldering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about 30 feet long and fifteen feet wide and weighs close to ten tons. It contains 100 miles of wire, about 4500 vacuum tubes for the electronic operations, 3000 relays, 2500 magnetic heads and play-backs to carry the information to and from the storage drums, and 400,000 solder connections. A staff of about 40 worked on the development and construction of the machine...
Spectacular Frames. New aluminum spectacle frames were put on sale by Manhattan's Tura Co. The new frames (trade name: Turalite) are slightly lighter than thick plastic ones, need no rivets, solder or cement, and are virtually unbreakable. They come in twelve colors impregnated in the metal. Present production: 8,000 a week. Price...
...damn" but "dam," thus indicating that I accepted a possibly outmoded (1877) but attractive derivation of the phrase "a tinker's dam"-dam being any barrier, and, in particular, the wall of worthless dough "raised around a place which a plumber desires to flood with a coat of solder" (see Oxford Dictionary...
There is no satisfactory substitute for tin. It is a basic ingredient of tin cans, solder, bronze, collapsible tubes, foil, galvanized iron, a hundred other items. This week the U.S. took a big step toward fattening its thin stockpile of the metal...
...months the Bloc has not been willing because Congress was not willing to boost the price of silver. Result: silver has been so scarce that the PhotoEngravers Board of Trade of New York went so far as to melt silver dollars to get silver for industrial uses (photographic plates, solder...