Word: thermostatic
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...than double; the number of houses having single-room air conditioners should increase tenfold to about 5,000,000. Said Wampler: Man will forget "the day when he used to wrestle windows up & down, fight with screens, adjust radiators and try to pacify furnaces. He will simply set a thermostat and forget it ... The non-air-conditioned house is today's horse & buggy...
Home Wave. In Springfield, Mass., while Antonio Giannetti was showing off his new air-conditioning system to customers during a heat wave, his barbershop got so cold that a thermostat turned on the radiators...
...weekends fishing on his 34-foot cabin cruiser, Desilu; plays violent tennis; likes to cook elaborate dishes. Says Lucille: "Everything is fine with him all the time. Wanta play cards? Fine. Play games? Fine. go for a swim? Great." There's only one problem: "Desi is a great thermostat sneaker-upper and I'm a thermostat sneaker-downer. Cold is the one thing that isn't great with...
...Oakland, Calif, loft in 1931 by William A. Ray, then 26, and his brother Charles. Fresh out of Stanford University's engineering school, and with $10,000 in capital borrowed from their father, the brothers designed an industrial fuel control unit, did badly. They did better with a thermostat control for home furnaces, but not till they invented a simplified home-heater control did sales start soaring. By 1940, sales were up to $612,848. Since then more than $2,000,000 in stock has been, issued, to finance expansion of their plant in Glendale, and three younger brothers...
...like the animals, has a built-in mechanism of infinite complexity and delicacy to help him adapt himself to hunger, heat, cold, exhaustion or terror. Normally the mechanism is self-regulating (like a heating plant with a thermostat). But sometimes, Selye says, it gets out of kilter. Then the body either overdoes the job of adapting itself to stress, underdoes it, or simply does it wrong. What follows may be disease or even death. Doubtless this has always been true, but it seems to be happening oftener now that man has built himself a civilization which subjects his old-fashioned...