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...amount of foot trouble and the difficulty of analyzing it. After the war he spent five years as a researcher of the American Museum of Natural History, studying the evolution of the human foot, went on to investigate feet at Yale. Then with Dr. Herbert Elftman he devised his apparatus to study feet, His findings: most trouble with the foot starts with the first metatarsal, the small bone behind the great toe. Normally this bone carries two-sixths of the weight of the body. If it is short or wobbly, the second metatarsal has to take up the load. Weak...
...statement of a Boston paper that merchants in the Square had not even heard the alarm, the Eastern Company said that the purpose of the siren was to get people off of the streets, not bring them out. The Eastern Company is supplying the City of Cambridge with the apparatus...
Prohibited by the War Department to use the regular air raid signal, the Committee will use an announcement of some kind to test the apparatus...
...remarkable new foreign-body detector which Dr. Moorhead had with him. It was invented by Samuel Berman, a research engineer in the New York City Transit Department. The cigar-sized instrument works on the principle of a radio tube; when held over a wounded man a long, pencil-like apparatus shows on a recording dial the presence and exact location of a metallic substance in the body. Dr. Moorhead's detector is the only one that has been made; it is still in Honolulu. Said he: "It proved invaluable for saving precious time in X-raying and probing...
...Maritime Commission are as durable as the Hog Islanders of World War I, much more finely equipped and finished, and a lot more economical. Divided into eight watertight compartments, they will stay afloat even when a quarter flooded, are fitted with gun supports and housings for submarine-detection apparatus. The gun supports are as handy as Jerry Land knew they would be. Arming C-ships (see cut, p. 71) against U-boats is no trick...