Word: tronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home of tomorrow. Two new advances: Bendix last week unveiled an automated machine tool with an electronic brain that "reads" coded information on punched tape, automatically guides a 50-ton milling machine turning out precision aircraft and missile parts; National Cash Register this week marketed a "Post-Tronic" banking machine that electronically posts depositors' checks, virtually eliminates the possibility of a clerical error. In another few months one Midwest state will even field-test an electronic control system to steer and otherwise operate cars in a stretch of superhighway...
...toys are less complicated. General Molds & Plastics Corp. has a "Brainy Bug" ($5) that keeps on the move, automatically changing direction when its "feelers" touch an object; Bedico of Germany has a helicopter ($28.95) that is directed by a two-levered control box; Science Electronics, Inc. has an Erec-Tronic Transistor Set ($14.95) that gives young engineers a choice of nine different crystal and transistor radio circuits that can be built without soldering or tools...
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