Word: dialed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week at Coney Island Barnet Males was in trouble with the law for pandering to the common interest in blood pressure. On the Boardwalk he set up a sphygmomanometer including a regular cuff and bulb. An overlarge dial was blatantly labeled "Blood Pressure Indicator for SYSTOLIC PRESSURE." For 10? passers-by were invited to "READ YOUR OWN BLOOD PRESSURE."* To protect himself from the serious charge of practicing medicine without a license, Concessionaire Males set up big signs reading: "Attendant is forbidden to diagnose, prescribe or treat under any circumstances. The only purpose of this (non-stethoscope) machine...
...part by part. One machine, which Manager W. E. Glancy of Hood Rubber Co. Laboratories described last week at Atlantic City, has all the wheels and most of the gadgets of a lathe for turning out baseball bats. It is used to pull eyelets out of tennis shoes, a dial registering the force needed. A machine with a rocking arrangement stretches sheets of shoe rubber until they tear. To test the safety-toe caps of miners' boots, a cake of paraffin is put in the toe and an iron weight dropped from a height...
...undersea marvel. This U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey ship is equipped with the latest type of echo-recorder, a device which automatically measures the depth of water by the time required for a sound to travel to the bottom and bounce back. The depth appears continuously on a dial and the profile of the sea floor is translated to a chart. Scrawled before the Oceanographer's surveyors was a new picture of the mighty chasm that was carved in what is now ocean bottom by the Hudson River...
...given a different card. As numbers are called out each theatregoer marks off such as are on his card. The person who first exhibits a card on which five of the numbers thus called compose a row, wins a prize. In "Screeno" the numbers are determined by a dial and spinning pointer which is projected on the screen.-ED. "Finance" v. "Monopoly" Sirs...
...housing, shaped like a truncated pyramid, is a fork carrying the transmitter. Inside the housing is the ringing mechanism, two musical gongs which may be rung emphatically with a metal clapper or softly with a wooden one at the subscriber's whim. Recessed into the housing is the dial, which operates almost noiselessly...