Once a work tool with few creature comforts, in the 1950s consumers began purchasing pickups for lifestyle reasons and by the 1990s less than 15 percent of owners reported use in work as the pickup truck's primary purpose. Today in North America, the pickup is mostly used like a passenger car. The term pickup is of unknown origin. It was used by Studebaker in 1913 and by the 1930s pick-up (hyphenated) had become the standard term. In Australia and New Zealand ute, short for utility, is used for both pickups and coupe coupÃ©. utilities
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The combination of JMAR's soft X-ray source and its newly patented stepper creates a unique tool for fabrication of the zone plate diffractive optics used to collect and focus X-rays - a process critical to the development of JMAR's X-ray Microscope and X-ray Nano Probe products.