Word: watt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Extensive planning, naturally, lies behind the programs that WGBH-TV will present. The Museum of Fine Arts, for example, is installing a television control room, and at a cost of over $80,000 every gallery is being wired with camera cables and 9,000-watt lamps brilliant enough for color television. "The whole Museum will be a television studio, and we will be able to show all our exhibits in their native settings," explains William Dooley, the Museum's Director of Education. "It is one of the most startling innovations the Museum has accomplished since its founding...
...your excellent review of Scotland's contribution to Britain's prosperity, it might not have been out of place to record a truly remarkable fact concerning three men of outstanding achievement in 20th-century science: John Logic Baird in television, Sir Robert Watson-Watt in radar, and Sir Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin. All were born and bred north of the Tweed. This makes them British, but never English...
...Wilford G. Crane, a mere "10-watt amplifier bank clerk," once brilliantly undermined a wealthy "hifi bourgeois" with a gift of a single 78-r.p.m. disk. " 'It's Dajos Bela and Salon Orchestra, been looking for it for years. The way he plays these Hungarian Dances is beyond comparison. Finally found it on my last trip to Chicago. Some allowances you may have to make, but for 1933, don't you think the sound is spacious and resonant, eh?' Of course, Crane had actually found the disk in the attic . . . and had then rubbed dust...
...Watt Cooler. To reduce the load on the electrical system of a house, General Electric announced a half-horsepower, low-wattage air conditioner that uses less current than a toaster or flatiron. Price: about...
...most of Manhattan's mystified dance reviewers declined to evaluate the ballet, although they paid their respects to distinguished Composer Ives (an insurance broker who pioneered polytonal music in the U.S. in his spare time, died this year at 79). But the Daily News's Douglas Watt found something positive to report about the ballet in Allegra Kent's athletic performance. It soon became apparent, he wrote after watching her costume pull tighter, that she had "one of the cutest behinds in the company...