Word: dashboard
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...produce to have a quiet city. Said he: It is entirely possible to produce silence by two sound-waves which fit into each other much like the teeth of two saw blades. The "electric ear" will also be used to test machines for friction, loose parts. Set in the dashboard of an airplane, the device will warn the pilot of engine trouble before he can detect it with his own ears...
...wide, single-bar bumpers. . . . Radiator shields are prominent. . . . Hubcaps are larger. . . . Black predominates for formal cars. . . . Many cars have radios. Le Baron's radio controls are placed in the vanity-box so they may be operated from the rear seat. . . . Duesenberg,* by Judkin, has a complete liquor cabinet. . . . Dashboards are more complicated than ever, with altimeters popular. . . . Much chromium is used on many cars. Some gold and silver plating and solid bronze are used. . . . Metal tire covers are prominent. . . . Radically modern for Brewster was a Rolls-Royce body with everything, including doors, slanting sharply backward. This Rolls-Royce cost...
Inside equipment has been altered and refined. Flower vases are now in the Greek manner; many-hued rayon-silk covers the seats; Egyptian sculpture motives have been adapted for dashboard instruments; vivid soda-fountain marble is used for gear shift handles. With the introduction of non-dulling, non-rusting chrome-nickels, there are more cars with shiny, metallic surfaces than ever before. The hood is sometimes of different texture from the rest of the body...