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Through the dark Arctic night slipped a sleek, grey sea wolf, searching for the sheep of the sea. It was the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst, sniffing delicately with her intricate detector apparatus, pricking up her mechanical ears, hunting hungrily for a fat Allied convoy on the long haul to Murmansk with materiel for the Red Army...
Major Ascroft's chief reason for operating at a base hospital: there the surgeon can use 1) the X-ray (which is not always available in forward zones); 2) a suction apparatus to remove injured brain tissues and debris and an electric cautery to stop bleeding. Neither device is obtainable near a swiftly moving front...
...rain maker studied and taught at Yale and other U.S. and German universities, last year got an award from the Royal Meteorological Society of London for his studies of fogs on airdromes. Last week Capetown's City Council was pondering putting up $1,000,000 for the rainmaking apparatus...
...This energy is converted into tiny electrical impulses, then amplified to turn a hand on a dial, showing the navigator the plane's direction. Inside this dial are mechanisms that automatically correct errors resulting from magnetic interference and variations. There is less interference from ship metal or electrical apparatus than in the magnetic compass, because the pickup coils need not be in the navigator's cabin, can be installed where they will not be affected by the ship's bomb load or armor...
Brakeman Rodgers. For years hillbilly music remained a branch of folklore to most urban Americans - if they knew of it at all. But in 1921 a Kansas City-born folklore fan named Ralph Peer (then sales manager for Okeh Records) took a recording apparatus into the backwoods of Georgia and made some 300 disks. As an experiment, Okeh issued Peer's recordings, listing them in a special catalogue similar to those used for foreign language and "race" records. Within a few years Okeh's hillbilly list sold over a million disks-mostly below the Mason-Dixon line...