Word: sprinklers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Water Worm. Plastic garden hose which acts as a lawn sprinkler was put on sale by A. M. Andrews Co. of Portland, Ore. Holes punched along the Vinylite hose spray a 12-ft.-wide swath of lawn. Price for a 50-ft. length, which weighs only 1½ lbs. and can be rolled into a 6-in. bundle...
Automatic Gardener. Texas Lawn Sprinkler Co. is selling an electric control that automatically turns on an underground sprinkler system and waters a lawn when it needs it. Two electrodes keep track of the moisture in the air and soil can be set to turn on the sprinkler system if the moisture falls below a certain point. Price of the sprinkler system varies according to the size of the lawn, e.g., about $2,000 for a 100-by-200-ft. lawn. Price of the control...
...Sprinkler Sentinel. An automatic timer which will turn off lawn sprinklers after any period from one to 60 minutes has been put on the market by Automatic Controls Corp. of Ann Arbor, Mich. Price...
Collins claimed that residents of Hollis and other Yardlings who gathered when a sprinkler blew off on Hollis' top floor four weeks ago, stole a fire axe, a helmet valued at $16, and a tiller seat...
...UNESCO's is planned for only 16; where the U.N. spent $67.5 million, UNESCO expects to spent $7,678,000. Instead of adopting air-conditioning throughout, as U.N. did, UNESCO plans to keep cool by using blue glass sun screens down the south and east sides, with a sprinkler system to sluice dirt and dust off the glass. Instead of sitting on a solid, enclosed base, UNESCO will rest on ground-floor stilts such as France's famed Le Corbusier tried and failed to get in the U.N. plans...