Word: volt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Power-Caddy. For bringing golfers up to the 19th Hole still feeling fresh, Power Cadd, Inc., Littleton, Colo, has put on sale a power-driven cart that carries golf bags (one-or two-bag models), operates on two 12-volt batteries. A switch regulates the Power-Caddy's speed; a swivel wheel gives finger-tip steering. Price: around...
...chief advantage of transistors-besides their smallness-is that they have no glowing filament and therefore need no "A current" to keep the filament hot. All they need is the "B current," and very little of that. According to Edward C. Tudor, president of I.D.E.A., the 22½ volt B battery (cost: $1.15) lasts 20 to 30 hours if used continuously, longer when played intermittently...
...meet deliveries on the sales that he was sure would come in, Sayre put $1,000,000 into new plant layout and equipment. He also looked over the line of Norge products, decided to add a new no-volt, $149.95 automatic drier, $20 to $40 below the prices of most competitors...
...single cell produces less than one volt, but since its active parts need be only one-half inch thick, many cells can be stacked up in series to give higher voltage. The efficiency can be as high as 77%. Bacon believes that his fuel cell can also be used as a kind of storage battery; it can burn hydrogen and oxygen made by decomposing water with surplus electricity when demand is low. Later on, he hopes, it can burn air and impure hydrogen made with coal...
...days to six months.* Said Health Commissioner Bruce Underwood: "This legislation makes it a crime to spread tuberculosis." ¶General Electric's X-ray department in Milwaukee announced this week that, in cooperation with both government and private organizations, it would produce a new 6,000,000-volt electron gun for treating cancer. The gun was designed by Professor Edward L. Ginzton, head of Stanford's Microwave Laboratory, and Radiologist Henry S. Kaplan of Stanford Medical School. Treating cancer with X-rays has always been a tricky business, due to the danger of radiation injuries to healthy tissue...