Science: Color by Cable

NEUTRAL FOUR STOP SIXTY TWO DEGREES STOP PURPLE DASH BLUE SIXTY SEVEN STOP TWENTY FOUR DEGREES STOP BLUE FIFTY EIGHT STOP FOURTEEN DEGREES

If a Detroit motormaker received a wire like this from Manhattan and if he were a client of Color Engineer Howard Ketcham, he would realize that he was not getting garbled code advice to buy raw materials but a sample of a new body color.

Last week Mr. Ketcham announced and demonstrated "Colorcable," his patented method of transmitting color from any where to anywhere in a matter of minutes. Confronted with a...

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