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Encabulators are widespread in industry. GM has a competing product:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLDgQg6bq7o

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The retro-encabulator has been superseded by the chronodiclastic infradibulator. Try to keep up, people.

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Anyone know the history of this bit?  

The original technical description of the "turbo-encabulator" was written by British graduate student John Hellins Quick (1923-1991). It was published in 1944 by the British Institution of Electrical Engineers Students’ Quarterly Journal in an article titled "The Turbo-Encabulator in Industry" by "J.H. Quick, Student" [1] as also noted by consulting firm Arthur D. Little in a 1995 reprint of Quick's description, and giving Quick's full name.
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In 1962 a turboencabulator data sheet was created by engineers at General Electric's Instrument Department, in West Lynn, Massachusetts. It quoted from the previous sources and was inserted into the General Electric Handbook.[6] The turboencabulator data sheet had the same format as the other pages in the G.E. Handbook. The engineers added "Shure Stat" in "Technical Features", which was peculiar only to the Instrument Department, and included the first known graphic representation of a "manufactured" turboencabulator using parts made at the Instrument Department.

Circa 1977 Bud Haggart, an actor who appeared in many industrial training films in and around Detroit, performed in the first film realization of the description and operation of the "Turboencabulator", using a truncated script adapted from Quick's article. Bud convinced director Dave Rondot and the film crew to stay after the filming of an actual GMC Trucks project training film to realize the Turboencabulator spot.[7]

Circa 1988 the former Chrysler Corporation "manufactured" the Turboencabulator in a video spoof.

Circa 1997 Rockwell Automation "manufactured" the renamed Retro-Encabulator in another video spoof.[9]

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Anyone know the history of this bit?