Two other Squier Laboratory officials, Lt.
Col. John T. Newman, deputy director, and A. W.
Rogers, chief of the components-and-materials branch, prophesied that transistors
and auto-sembly wiring together will lead to still another revolutionary
technique -- “unitizing.” “Unitizing” means that entire sections
of wiring, tubes, and so forth, can be compressed into a small panel or
a plastic building block. When a radio or radar being used is a tank,
plane or at a front-line combat post goes bad, the repairman, instead of
struggling with the complicated wiring or installing a new set, simply
will locate the area of trouble, pull out the unit and insert a new section,
as quickly and simply as pluging in a new radio tube. The faulty
part, if worth salvaging, can be returned to a rear-area station for repair.
“Or,” said Rogers, “we can simply discard it like a throw-away beer bottle.”
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