Electronics-World-1959-05

ecent developments in electronics
Post Office of Tomorrow
Electronics will play an important part in the operation of
this new, fully mechanized mail processing plant and post
office at Providence, R. L, which will be built by Irrtelex
System, Inc., (subsidiary of ITT). The estimated cost of
the post office is $20- million and it will be leased to the
Post Office Department for 20 years. The new facilities
will speed delivery of all mail in the Providence area, including
14 surrounding areas. The entire project is scheduled
for completion in September, 1960. The post office,
known as "Project Turnkey," will come complete with
equipment ready to go at the turning of a key. Operations
will be supervised from an elevated control room, which
will serve as a nerve center. This center will have a visual
and an electronic view of all activities, and will control
synchronized conveyer movements of mail in and out of the
facility.
Hot -Dipping Antenna Towers
Hot -dipped galvanizing facilities at Rohn Mfg. Co., Peoria,
Ill., were increased 600 per -cent in capacity when a new,
modern galvanizing plant was put into operation recently.
A portion of the new facilities is shown in the photo below.
Testing Station for Research Planes
Technicians and engineers operate plotting board and
monitor console at new space range for testing the mile -
a- second X -15 research airplane which will fly at 100
miles altitude. The testing station, located in the Nevada
wastelands, was developed and built by the Electronic
Engineering Co. of California. It will provide 600,000
answers per second to electronic questions on the safety
of the pilot and the condition of the airplane when the
rocket -powered airplane drops from a B -52 bomber and
roars into space.
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