The 'intelligent
catseye' picks up the light from oncoming vehicles which then triggers a timed light output to show red.
FROM
Catseyes to crossword puzzles, Tarmac to telephones, pencils to penicillin, we know we're an inventive lot.
I even found pieces of coral,
catseyes, shells, lots of stuff.
The stamps depict photographs and computer-generated interpretations of the Colossus computer, World Wide Web,
Catseyes, Fibre Optics, Stainless Steel, Carbon Fibre, DNA Sequencing and the i-limb.
ACROSS 1 Messenger; 6 Dado; 7 Russia; 9
Catseyes; 11 Croupier; 13 Ulrika; 14 Wild; 15 Tangerine.
The second sprint handicap is bestleftto
CATSEYES (6.40).
Seeing the enemy in pitch darkness was not easy but there was a night flying ace called
Catseyes Cunningham who notched up some successes.
I totally agree with Jeremy asking why there are not
catseyes on the roads here.
Then there is the red London bus that Cliff Richard drove across Europe in Summer Holiday to tempt a generation into foreign travel and, surprise, surprise, the humble
Catseyes invented by Percy Shaw of Halifax.
BONUS WINNER: MRS M M COULTHARD, STOCKPORT, CHESHIRE ACROSS DOWN 1 Holder of a university chair (9) 6 Jug (4) 7 Voice protest (6) 9 Tube (8) 11 Biased (8) 13 Scientific study of plants (6) 14 Inner part of the human hand (4) 15 Incomparable (9) 2 Overtly, publicly (6) 3 Immerse completely (8) 4 Coral structure (4) 5 Largest Dutch port (9) 6 King Arthur's magical sword (9) 8 Information superhighway (8) 10 In a relaxed position (2,4) 12 Tiny molecule (4) SOLUTION to Crossword February 03 ACROSS 1 Messenger; 6 Dado; 7 Russia; 9
Catseyes; 11 Croupier; 13 Ulrika; 14 Wild; 15 Tangerine.
Solar powered
Catseyes will light the way for drivers on a city street.
As a junior transport minister in the Atlee government of the late 1940s it was his battle with civil servants that eventually led to
Catseyes being installed on Britain's roads.