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...great help was a 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...
Into the U.S. production mill last week went a new and highly secret submarine detector. In the considered opinion of naval authorities, the detector will spell the doom of Nazi submarines. Said one usually conservative officer: "After we get this one installed, no German submarine which leaves its base will ever return...
...fall of France had another important effect. The Germans seized certain French vessels which had been equipped with secret British anti-submarine devices, notably the supersonic detector called ASDIC. A study of this gear enabled the Germans to develop new tactics (TIME, March...
MURDERS IN VOLUME 2 - Elizabeth Daly - Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Henry Gamadge, scholarly detector of fake books, takes on a spot of work for the old New York Vauregards, finds it bloodier by far than printer...
...liberty to give you any details of the methods to be used, but I confidently believe it will not be long now before all the weight and sting has been taken out of the night bombers." Good guessers thought the device was a new detector that would enable pursuit planes to find raiders at night. > In London, Minister for Aircraft Production Lord Beaverbrook had more specific good news. Guardedly he spoke of some new plane models. The Tornado fighter was "most successful." The twin-motored Manchester bomber, the four-motored Stirling bomber - designed to cruise at between...