Talk story about miniaturization; & talk with Horace D. Gilbert, president of Miniature Precision Bearings, Inc., a firm that sponsored the first annual Miniaturization Award Mr. Gilbert said that the bulk of the miniaturization industry is concerned, directly or indirectly, with computers or instruments used in the control of missiles.
The popularity of the personal computer and the ongoing miniaturization of the semiconductor circuitry and other devices first led to the development of somewhat smaller, portable or, as they were sometimes called, luggable computer systems.
Though it did not turn out to be another King Kong, it was Hollywood's first Technicolor excursion into science fiction, with Albert Dekker as Dr. Alexander Thorkel, one of the screen's most memorable mad scientists, who discovers the secret of miniaturization and shrinks those who would expose that secret to the world.
The practice of automatic miniaturization stimulated a pullulation of fact books termed by an unsympathetic observer "the information trap"—marked by a flood of subject series and simplified technology.
While these puppets that exist furthest from nature can be admired, it cannot be denied that there is a charm and a fascination in the miniaturization of life.
The progressive miniaturization of electronic components in the late 20th century made possible the development of all-electronic watches, in which the necessary transistors, resistors, capacitors, and other elements were all on one or several miniature integrated circuits, or chips.
Passive guidance systems benefited enormously from a miniaturization of electronic components and from advances in seeker-head technology.
Advances in miniaturization and electronics are reflected in security equipment that is smaller, more reliable, and more easily installed and maintained.
Micro (2011), which imagines the sinister applications of miniaturization technology, derived from a partially finished manuscript that was expanded by science writer Richard Preston at the behest of Crichton's family.
The development of integrated circuits in the 1960s propelled a trend toward miniaturization in computer technology that has led to machines that are much smaller and less expensive than their predecessors yet are capable of performing calculations at much greater speeds.
The invention of the transistor and the miniaturization of circuits, along with the invention of electronic, magnetic, and optical media for the storage of information, resulted from advances in electrical engineering and physics.
