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The word bionic, coined by Jack E. Steele in August 1958, is a portmanteau from biology and electronics [2] which was popularized by the 1970s U.S. television series The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, both based on the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin.
Roman numerals: for example the word "six" in the clue might be used to indicate the letters VI; The name of a chemical element may be used to signify its symbol; e.g., W for tungsten; The days of the week; e.g., TH for Thursday; Country codes; e.g., "Switzerland" can indicate the letters CH; ICAO spelling alphabet: where Mike signifies M and ...
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Bionic (software), a standard C library developed for the Android embedded system; Droid Bionic, a cell phone running the Android operating system; Mercedes-Benz Bionic, a concept car first introduced in 2005; name used in Apple silicon models (A11 to A16) code name of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) OS
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
Very few elements of the original series were kept, except for the first and last names of the main character. In the remake, Jaime's full name was Jaime Wells Sommers, a homage to the earlier series' character Dr. Rudy Wells. In the series, the new version of the "Bionic Woman" had the same basic bionic parts as the 1970s model.
His work on bionics, and the USAF research on cyborgs, caught the attention of SF writer and aviation expert Martin Caidin, whose 1972 book Cyborg makes explicit reference to then-Major Jack Steele. The book formed the basis of the TV series The Six Million Dollar Man (and spinoff The Bionic Woman ), which popularized, if somewhat inaccurately ...