Trilon
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A triangular prism-shaped object, turning on an axle electromechanically to show different letters or images, and this form has been used on game shows and billboards. This is often dubbed a "trilon".
The squares on the old Concentration game board, first aired in 1958, may have been the first use. The game combined the card game with a rebus puzzle, which was gradually revealed as matches were made. As the show was an immediate replacement for the disgraced Twenty-One, the network insisted on keeping the puzzle pieces under high security, attaching them only to the trilons as needed.[1]
Trilons also showed the categories on the original Pyramid series, the first-season Street Smarts episodes, and the letter squares on the old Wheel of Fortune letter board used trilons until 1997 and the wheel itself also used trilons until 2007. The entire game board on the original Family Feud was a giant trilon through 1994, as was the board used in the Hidden Pictures rounds on the syndicated version of the Nickelodeon game show Finders Keepers. The second rounds (Jailtime Challenges) of every Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? episode featured 15 places of the location that the second round took place, represented by trilons. Trilons are still being used on The Price is Right pricing games, such as Barker's Bargain Bar.
Trilons were temperamental and labor-intensive, so were largely replaced by on-set television monitors, as on Jeopardy!.[2]
Trilons have been used in roadside billboards. Many long, thin trilons are placed side-by-side in the frame, and periodically rotate simultaneously to cycle the billboard through three separate signs.
A Trilon may also refer to:
- Trilon, a trademark of BASF for various chelating agents derived from EDTA.
- ABS Trilon, a durable acrylonitrile butadiene styrene elastomer used in packaging and building materials
- Trilon-83, a codename for the nerve agent tabun.
- Trilon Financial Corp., a Toronto-based financial services provider now part of Brascan Corporation.
- Trilon Inc., maker of ShotSpotter, a Gunshot Location System.
- Trilon Records, a jazz and blues label of the 1930s and 1940s.
- The Trylon and Perisphere, two geometric temporary structures at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
- Trylon, a company that manufactured triangular cross section radio masts and towers, now part of Trylon TSF.
