Word: changer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bill Changer. The first automatic device to make change for paper currency, long a vexing problem to vending-machine operators, was announced by Chicago's A.B.T. Manufacturing Corp. The table-model machine changes $1 bills by scanning the bill through six holes with photoflood lights, registering the beams on a light-sensitive surface. The machine recognizes and rejects counterfeits, foreign currency and bills of wrong denominations. It can be modified to handle $2, $5 or $10 bills. Estimated price when it goes on the market in the spring...
...labors of Victor engineers. The package sells for a luxurious $80, a price that does not preclude some annoying corner-cutting: the sonatas are crammed together, one starting wherever the previous one leaves off, as if the listener were going to stack the entire 32 sonatas on his changer and run them through chronologically...
Return Engagement. In Philadelphia, Trolley Operator Edward Palumbo identified Walter Green as the man who had grabbed his bag containing change on the outbound trip, jumped off the car, waited for Palumbo to return on his inbound trip, hopped aboard again and snatched Palumbo's money changer...
Night courses at Carnegie Tech bring out an inventive flair in Peter and take him away from open hearths and Bessemer converters into the research laboratory. At novel's end, Peter leaves the steel industry, prematurely invents an automatic record-changer and is about to take a flyer in the manufacturing end of the newly born radio industry. Peter Domanig promises to be a Lanny Budd-of-all-trades, and Author White certainly does not intend to cramp his style. He has already announced two forthcoming sequels, Brass and Gold...
...Chicago, Magnavox Co. showed off a mass-produced, high-fidelity phonograph with four speakers. Capable of reproducing sounds up to 12,000 cycles (twice the range of most mass-produced sets), Magnasonic has a three-speed record changer and an eight-tube amplifier-preamplifier mounted in a mahogany console cabinet. Price: about...