0 A push-button object is an electronic object that you control by pushing buttons: --
a push-button phone
In the ever-quickening tempo of this changing push-button age, it is a sobering thought that children at school still have to learn their tables.
A more important example is the push-button telephone device.
It is because parents today are very suspicious about push-button warfare and are worried about the careers that may be offered to their sons.
In other words, if the fighters are to have a push-button war, the civilians will have a war of pills and potatoes.
In any case, we are still a long way from push-button mining.
I accept the point that for many people the push-button telephone is often easier to operate than the dial telephone.
Perhaps the next and most logical step would be push-button voting.
Under present circumstances, and because of changing technologies and costs, we are re-examining our plans for providing push-button telephones.