Word: computerization
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Linewriter. The Potter Instrument Co. of Great Neck, N.Y. announced a "flying typewriter" designed to keep pace with the flying thoughts of electronic computers. Instead of working laboriously, one character at a time, it prints whole lines at once, 300 lines per minute, on a paper band. It takes its...
Government work of Mark I included an assignment for the Air Force when it was planning to construct a model of a jet engine with a takeoff unit incorporated in it. Mark I proved this development impractical and the Air Force cancelled their order for the model. According to Aiken...
In the field of optics the computer is giving added evidence of its versatility. Mark I is able to trace mathematically rays through aerial lenses while plans for the lenses are still on the drawing board. This frees the opticians from their tedious calculating duties and enables them to work...
NORMAN B. BOLOMON is copying mathematical equations and symbols onto a magnetic tape on Mark IV's coding box." This tape will be fed into the computer where it will control its operations. The coding box measures about six feet by ten feet and has over 200 boys with a...
Aiken scoffs at speculations that this "mechanical brain" will over approach the overall capabilities of the human brain, but believes that the computer will alleviate mental drudgery in the future, just as power-driven machinery relieved physical labors after the Industrial Revolution.