Word: gadget
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some textile mills, invented and marketed a successful bread-slicer. He joined the National Inventors Congress in 1928, became its paid president (at $3,600 a year) in 1931. His function is to aid, promote, protect, advise. Mr. Burns is proud when newspapers call him the "Nation's Gadget Chief...
...Paris last week telephone users were urged to "Save your time, your money, your memory and your nerves." How? By renting a clever little gadget for automatic telephone dialing. The device, called the "Mémophone," is a mechanism which works independently of the ordinary telephone dial. On top of a small box is an indicator table, with room for 30 names. To call a number, you move the indicator opposite the name you want, press a lever, and the works inside the box then do the dialing...
Another communication gadget, announced last week in the U. S.: a recording device which transcribes verbal memoranda, conferences, speeches on lightweight plastic discs resembling cellophane. These records can be folded and mailed in ordinary envelopes; two records lasting ten minutes each will go anywhere in the U. S. for 3?. The transcribing machines are also equipped to reproduce. Makers: General Communication Products of Los Angeles...
...upset only by an uncommonly dressy audience. For starched-shirt bosoms are poor absorbers, bounce sounds back toward the stage.) Unseen were 20 miles of cable, some 500 vacuum tubes, 100 amplifiers, a gasoline-driven generator for emergency use in Hollywood's next flood, many another foresighted gadget...
Mercury, the Fords' newcomer, has 116-in. wheelbase, a crested, prow-cut hood front, with low, horizontal grille work, bird's-eye headlights in the fender fronts, a V8, 95-h. p. motor. Price: $934 Gadget: pinpoint pilot light for the ignition keyhole...