Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Drain from the Brain...
TIME'S poignant Oct. 29 story on how Industrial Technician John Holter developed a brain valve to save the life of his baby son, suffering from hydrocephalus, implied that only Holler's baby had been saved. At least 65 children suffering from water on the brain have had their lives saved by means of the surgical insertion of a Holter brain valve...
...stainless steel body on an entirely new medical principle to control the fluid from the head into the bloodstream. Holter now has been provided by Yale & Towne with precision tools in his home workshop in which to devote his full time to producing many more of the lifesaving brain valves...
With a blinking of lights, a digestion of digits, and melodies played out on a monochromatic scale, the giant electronic brain took over TV last week. The machine proved itself a better matchmaker than oddsmaker. Before election night was over, CBS's Univac Babysitter Doug Edwards wearily offered to give his magic brain (estimated cost: $1,000,000) to Commentator Walter Cronkite for Christ mas. But on NBC's popular, 16-year-old stunt show, People Are Funny (Sat. 7:30 p.m.), Remington Rand's Univac No. 21 turned Cupid, brought together a flesh-and-blood couple...
...work was finished, the Federal Government asked Dr. Hamilton to do a similar job. This kept her roving through mine, mill and smelter for a dozen years. She combatted the effects of such anciently known poisons as mercury, used by hatters in matting felt and a frequent cause of brain damage (hence, some say, the expression "mad as a hatter"). And she fought ultramodern lethal concoctions-TNT, aniline dyes, picric acid, which stained its workers so yellow that they were dubbed "canaries." She campaigned for ventilation, antitoxic rinses, safeguards of all kinds...