Word: tinkertoy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tower, 160 feet high, loomed last week above the trees of Paris' Park St. Cloud, looking like a giant Tinkertoy sparkling in the sun. The tower is made of steel tubes, supporting scattered metal plaques colored red, blue, yellow, orange, brown and silver. Part of an international building show, it is meant to dramatize the possibility of a new kind of monumental sculpture...
...tape and the Navy's Project Tinkertoy (TIME, Sept. 28) are some of the keys to the factory of the future. But it will be a long time before most U.S. industries are generally automatic, their operations run by a whole new group of controls such as "servo-mechanisms," which not only correct their own errors but perform a series of logical operations. Machines run by such controls are often fantastically expensive to produce; M.I.T. has developed a servo-controlled milling machine, so flexible that it can make 150 different products, but it costs $400,000. In many industries...
...want a doll, no dinky tinkertoy...
...compact little factory on the outskirts of Washington, executives and technicians from 200 companies in the electronics industry last week inspected a secret project of the Navy. After three years, and $4,700,000 spent in experiments on "Project Tinkertoy," the Navy and the National Bureau of Standards had developed an almost automatic assembly line for many electronic parts...
...automatic machines, Project Tinkertoy now turns out 200 to 300 finished units an hour. Production goal: 1,000 an hour. Cost per unit: 50?, about half as much as the conventional unit. The Government holds all patents, will let anyone use them. Said one Navyman: "The field is wide open . . . We hope that private industry will pick up the ball and run with...