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Musical Telephone. A transistor-powered telephone signal that emits a staccato-like, musical tone instead of a ring has been developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc. and is being tested on 300 telephone subscribers in Crystal Lake, Ill. The new signal is available in eight musical pitches...
...Industries' fast-selling Golden Sonic ($20), a 20-in. long spaceship that will stop, start or change direction at the command of a whistle; so intricate is its mechanism, which is activated by a sound-sensitive diaphragm, that it comes with eight pages of instructions. Fairchild's transistor radio kit ($8.95), which operates on power drawn from sunlight or artificial light, supposedly can be assembled by a nine-year-old, but it includes a booklet of diagramed directions that many a parent will be hard-pressed to decipher. Other toyland marvels include an electronic robot ($8.95) that picks...
...nose cone landed safely amid 4,000 mobbing students at the University of Kansas, and again before the party loyal at a Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Oklahoma City (where he stood backstage with Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr, listening to the President's science talk on a transistor radio, hurriedly made notes and peppered Ike anew), still again before a national meeting of Young Democrats in Reno...
Portable Car Radio. Oldsmobile announced a new Delco all-transistor radio for its 1958 cars, which can be removed from the dashboard and played on dry cells. The 3-lb. "TransPortable" is powered by the car's electrical system when set in the dashboard...
Walter H. Brattain, 1956 Nobel physicist who was one of the inventors of the transistor Sc.D...