Word: fiber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...device--a so-called "fiber optics instrument"--consists of a long thin tube that is inserted into the heart. The tube is made of a bundle of 70,000 glass fibers which transmit an image from the inserted end to the viewer...
...fiber optics instrument allows heart defects and functions that cannot be detected by x-ray and electrocardiogram, to be seen and filmed, Dr. Gamble said. It makes possible direct visualization of the color, shape, texture, and motion of the heart, Dr. Gamble said, without necessitating surgery...
Some surgery is very dangerous if certain anatomic formations exist in a diseased heart, he said. The direct view of the heart, available through the fiber optics instrument, gives vital information without risking dangerous surgery...
...instrument is inserted into the blood vessels through the neck or leg. Light inside the heart and vessels is provided from a high intensity mercury are lamp and carried on down a second fiber optic system to the lenses...
...clubs for Christmas-clubs with aluminum shafts. Like the steel tennis racket, the aluminum-shafted golf club is being touted as a breakthrough of science. For 15 years, club manufacturers have been trying unsuccessfully to improve on the now-familiar stepped steel shafts that replaced hickory in the 1920s. Fiber-glass shafts, for instance, are whippier than steel, but their extreme flexibility only tends to exaggerate flaws in a golfer's swing. Aluminum is more rigid than fiber glass, and lighter than steel. The lighter shaft allows manufacturers to put more weight into the club head. The result...