Word: opticals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shales mentions as an example of this attitude an item which appeared in the Washington Post last month and that described Koppel's new indoor pool Complete with the "Nightline" logo in fiber-optic lights, the item said, the black pool was visible from most ground floor rooms...
Under Jones's plans, information would be processed inside a computer by a complicated pattern of optic signalling between circuits containing bits of information...
...example, despite its increasing use of fiber-optic-cable systems that carry far more conversations at lower cost, AT&T is stuck with millions of miles of old-fashioned copper wire and coaxial cable. Also on its books are millions of old dial telephones, built to work for 40 years but less versatile than newer high-tech models like its Touch-matic, which automatically dials up to 15 numbers...
When the patient returns to the operating room, the surgeon removes the catheter and inserts the nephroscope. Optic fibers in the device provide a clear view of the quarry. The doctor then eases a tiny, basket-like grabbing device through the nephroscope and manipulates it to grasp and remove the stone...
...Breathing Method, an old physician sits in an exclusive Manhattan club, spinning a long-ago yarn. He recalls the terror he once saw on the face of an ambulance driver, "His eyes widening until it seemed they must slip from their orbits and simply dangle from their optic nerves like grotesque seeing...