单词 | recordak |
释义 | Recordakn. Now chiefly historical. Any of various proprietary devices for producing or viewing photographic records of a large number of similar documents, such as bank cheques or book pages. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > devices for > specific meter1832 time stamp1855 telemeter1877 tape recorder1892 slot-meter1899 motor meter1903 check meter1909 Recordak1928 Thermo-Fax1953 ultramicrofiche1967 ultrafiche1971 electronic tag1980 1928 Times 27 Apr. 23/7 The Eastman Kodak Company has organized a subsidiary company, the Recordak Corporation..to manufacture a machine designed to protect banks against frauds in drawing cheques. 1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 2 May 11 The Recordak machine has replaced the clumsy methods of the Tours' post office. The airgraph service is now established. 1948 E. L. Irey Tax Dodgers xiii. 251 It was the only bank in Atlantic City which used a recordak. 1967 N. S. M. Cox & M. W. Grose Organization Bibliogr. Rec. by Computer 185 In 1956 we installed a ‘magnetic tape to microfilm’ device..and decentralized the whole file, using about forty Recordak readers, each containing all of the 160 million names. 1984 Jrnl. Herpetol. 18 344/2 Good cells were photographed with Kodak Recordak Ahu microfilm high contrast. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1928 |
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