1962 St. Mary's County Science and Engineering Fair History

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The Senior Grand Award winner was Robert Blevins in the category of Electronics.  His project was titled "Tone Transmitter and Receiver to Control a Boat."  Robert went to Great Mills High School.

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The Junior Grand Award winner was Allen Cheuvront in the category of Zoology.  His project was titled "Controlled Reflexes of Fishes."  Allen went to Esperanza Junior High School.
 

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Webmaster: The Superintendent of Schools of St. Marys County Mr. Robert E. King, Jr. announced the winners of Senior High Division awards at the Prince Georges Area Science Fair.  He brought with him Thirty student winners from the St. Marys Fair.  Seventeen were boys and Thirteen were Girls.  The schools represented were two students from Banneker High School, four from Esperanza Junior High School, three from Great Mills High School, three from Leonardtown High School, four from Margaret Brent High School, eight from Ryken High School and six from St. Marys Academy.  See List Of Students and Projects

1962 World History Of Science and Engineering

Century 21 introduced Seattle to its future
What if you gave a party and everybody came, from astronaut John Glenn to cosmonaut Gherman Titov, from Sammy Davis Jr. at the mike to Van Cliburn at the keyboard?

Ten million people did come. Seattle's Century 21 Exposition was a golden opportunity to put the Pacific Northwest on display just as jet travel was beginning to shrink America.		 Touch tone phone introduced at the 1962 World's Fair
 Shoebox, an experimental machine that performed arithmetic on voice command.

This innovative device recognized and responded to 16 spoken words, including the ten digits from "0" through "9." When a number and command words such as "plus," "minus" and "total" were spoken, Shoebox instructed an adding machine to calculate and print answers to simple arithmetic problems.

Shoebox was operated by speaking into a microphone, which converted voice sounds into electrical impulses. A measuring circuit classified these impulses according to various types of sounds and activated the attached adding machine through a relay system.

Shoebox was developed by William C. Dersch at IBM's Advanced Systems Development Division Laboratory in San Jose, Calif. He later demonstrated it to the public on television and at the IBM Pavilion of the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle.

 

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