A Rolodex is a rotating file device used to store business contact information ( the name is a portmanteau word of rolling and index ) currently manufactured by Newell Rubbermaid.

Many users avoid the effort of writing by taping the contact's business card directly to the Rolodex index card.

In Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One For the Road, a Rolodex of the four members ' old photos was assembled by their wives.

Its purpose was to replace the old-fashioned paper agenda and Rolodex, but it could do much more.

The list should be contemplated with some caution, as it is considered to be a compilation of P2 members and the contents of Gelli's Rolodex.

Rather than being bound into a booklet, the cards were attached to a circular core, rather like a huge Rolodex.

A Rolodex file used in the 1970s.

The Rolodex holds specially shaped index cards ; the user writes the contact information for one person or company on each card.

Some companies have produced business cards in the shape of Rolodex cards, as a marketing idea.

Currently FEP makes electronic versions of dictionaries, translators, tutors, puzzles, Bibles, Rolodex organizers, calculators, books.

* Requiring excessively complex passwords and forcing them to be changed frequently can cause users to write passwords down in places that are easy for an intruder to find, such as a Rolodex or post-it note near the computer.

* Flap sander or sanding flap wheel: A sanding attachment shaped like a Rolodex and used on a hand-held drill or mounted on a bench grinder for finishing curved surfaces.

I didn ’ t want to open up my Rolodex and get everyone to sing for me.

The Suez-Hungary crisis proves that this system was not invented by the new Administration, but only made more consistent and more active.

During the Civil War period Mr. Brown also invented the Brown & Sharpe formed tooth gear cutter, a basic invention which ultimately revolutionized the world's gear manufacturing industry by changing its basic economics.

He had found an aulos on the ground, tossed away after being invented by Athena because it made her cheeks puffy.

An adapted abacus, invented by Tim Cranmer, called a Cranmer abacus is still commonly used by individuals who are blind.

The Glagolitic alphabet is believed to have been created by Saints Cyril and Methodius, while the Cyrillic alphabet was invented by the Bulgarian scholar Clement of Ohrid, who was their disciple.

Abjads differ from abugidas, another category invented by Daniels, in that in abjads, the vowel sound is implied by phonology, and where vowel marks exist for the system, such as nikkud for Hebrew and harakāt for Arabic, their use is optional and not the dominant ( or literate ) form.

The name was invented either by Lovecraft, or by Albert Baker, the Phillips ' family lawyer.

The assembly line concept was independently redeveloped throughout history and not " invented " at one time by one person.

It was invented by Robert Stevenson, for use by an 82-ton converted fishing boat, Pharos, which was used as a lightvessel between 1807 and 1810 near to Bell Rock whilst the lighthouse was being constructed.

In 1800, as the result of a professional disagreement over the galvanic response advocated by Galvani, he invented the voltaic pile, an early electric battery, which produced a steady electric current.

It was originally named Antlia pneumatica (" Machine Pneumatique " in French ) to commemorate the air pump invented by the French physicist Denis Papin.

A person who participates in archery is typically known as an " archer " or " bowman ", and one who is fond of or an expert at archery can be referred to as a " toxophilite ".< ref > The noun " toxophilite ", meaning " a lover or devotee of archery, an archer ", is derived from Toxophilus by Roger Ascham —" imaginary proper name invented by Ascham, and hence title of his book ( 1545 ), intended to mean ' lover of the bow '.

Today automated flight control is common to reduce pilot error and workload at key times like landing or takeoff. Autopilot was first invented by Lawrence Sperry during World War II to fly bomber planes steady enough to hit precision targets from 25, 000 feet.

The armed car was invented by Royal Page Davidson at Northwestern Military and Naval Academy in 1898 with the Davidson-Duryea gun carriage and the later Davidson Automobile Battery armored car.

It is variously interpreted as either the language used by God to address Adam ( the divine language ), or the language invented by Adam with which he named all things ( including Eve ), as in.

Thermoplastic glue may have been invented around 1940 by Procter & Gamble as a solution to water-based adhesives commonly used in packaging at that time failing in humid climates, causing packages to open.

Rhythm section parts are usually improvised or otherwise invented by the performers themselves using chord symbols or a lead sheet as a guide.

There is also a theory that the form was invented by the 12th-century poet Alexander of Paris.

This jukebox-like phonograph was invented by Louis T. Glass and William S. Arnold.

The DC SQUID was invented in 1964 by Robert Jaklevic, John J. Lambe, James Mercereau, and Arnold Silver of Ford Research Labs after Brian David Josephson postulated the Josephson effect in 1962, and the first Josephson junction was made by John Rowell and Philip Anderson at Bell Labs in 1963.

The RF SQUID was invented in 1965 by Robert Jaklevic, John J. Lambe, Arnold Silver, and James Edward Zimmerman at Ford.

In 1890, Louis Glass and William S. Arnold invented the nickel-in-the-slot phonograph, the first of which was an Edison Class M Electric Phonograph retrofitted with a device patented under the name of Coin Actuated Attachment for Phonograph.

Other accounts hold that the reuben's creator was Arnold Reuben, the German owner of the once-famous, now defunct Reuben's Delicatessen in New York, who, according to an interview with Craig Claiborne, invented the " Reuben special " around 1914.

* In the Red Dwarf episode " Timeslides ", Dave Lister travels back in time using a mutated photograph of a pub in Liverpool where his band once played a gig to give his teenage self the idea of inventing the Tension Sheet ( a stress relief tool invented by Fred ' Thickie ' Holden, a former classmate of Arnold Rimmer, which earned him millions ).

The original pelvic toning device was the perineometer invented by Arnold Kegel to facilitate the measurement of the strength of the pubococcygeus muscle when it was resting and being actively squeezed-sometimes referred to as the Kegel tone.

CipherSaber was invented by Arnold Reinhold to keep strong cryptography in the hands of the public.

In 1938, Arnold F. Willatt invented the cold wave, the precursor to the modern perm.

Founded by Caltech professor Arnold O. Beckman in 1935 as National Technical Laboratories to commercialize a pH meter that he had invented, the company eventually grew to employ over 10, 000 people, with $ 2. 4 billion in annual sales by 2004.

Here Shockley struck up a friendship with Arnold Orville Beckman, who had invented the pH meter in 1934.

In Chapter XXII Leverkühn develops the twelve-tone technique or row system, which was actually invented by Arnold Schoenberg.

John Arnold also invented a similar escapement in 1782.