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would follow the progress of a battle on a series of TV screens. But the Army recently showed such remote control quarterbacking was entirely feasible. In color yet. And the Navy is planning its own experiments on televised naval operations. Twenty years ago, no magazine story about the 21st Century was complete without references to TV telephones. When the hero phoned home to say he’d be late for his vitamin capsule dinner because of a little union trouble in Mars, he heard and saw his wife, TV telephones already have been demonstrated here and abroad. They’re practical all right, but terribly expen¬ sive at this stage. So don’t be too quick on the hee¬ haw when evaluating other, still-un¬ tried video variants. For instance, a decade ago one Rus¬ sell V. Sceli dreamed up Televised Tailoring. His plan was to focus a TV camera on a customer being fitted for a new suit. Via wires under the floor, the camera would feed the picture to a projection tube which would throw a life-sized image on a large glass screen directly in front of the cus¬ tomer, who could thus see his own back and check a sxiit’s drape shape. The advantages over a multi-sided mirror aren’t immediately perceptible, but there’s no denying that Mr. Sceli’s system is much, much more scientific. An invention patented three years ago calls for a suspended monorail car to scoot around race tracks^ over the heads of the horses. This car would be equipped with a TV camera, sound equipment and a commentator, the lat¬ ter reporting to the Nation on major races. (There’s no solution yet for pos¬ sible nag neuroses induced by airborne two-legged creatures’ always beating the horses over the finish line.) Then there’s the proposal made some 30 years back, when TV was still in the test tube, instead of the kinescope tube, for a TV-like system to permit conununication by the deaf and dumb. Handicapped persons could use it to send and receive messages spelled out, visually, by finger motions. One gentleman, whose wife appar¬ ently spent too much time in the liv¬ ing room, watching soap operas, when she should have been in the kitchen, immereed in soup operas, has con¬ cocted a stove with built-in seven- inch TV screen. That way, milady can have her cake and bake it, too. The U.S. has no monopoly of fore- sighted 'TV schemes. One choice Eiuro- pean concoction is, literally, four- sighted. It’s a TV set with a four-way screen, permitting viewers to watch from all sides of the set. Just the thing for merry-go-rounds!