Word: gadget
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week in United Cigar Stores, Liggett Drug Stores, Schulte Cigar Stores and many a hotel in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles was a device making such a boon to smokers available for the first time. So simple that it seems at first glance a quackery, the gadget has a pedigree weighty enough to soothe all such suspicions. Invented by Aluminum Co. of America, it is endorsed by the Mellon Institute and the Italian Government, and is sold by a corporation headed by Count Giuseppe Cippico...
...every tongue (same reason Eastman chose the name Kodak). From a tiny office in Manhattan, Zeus Corp. six weeks ago began distributing black aluminum holders in several sizes at $1 and $2 each. By last week Zeus holders were selling like hot cakes. Most convincing evidence of the gadget's merit lies in the using. Commented Esquire: "After you smoke a pack, take out the cigaret filter and be thankful that what you see is in the filter...
...Thomas Eyston has a conveyance. It is 36 ft. long, weighs 14,000 lb., has six wheels (two pairs forward tandem, two double rear wheels), boasts a tail fin sporting the Union Jack, is called Thunderbolt and is described by courtesy as an automobile. Last week he took this gadget out on Utah's Bonneville salt flats, warmed up its 24-cylinder, 4,000-h.p. Rolls-Royce twin engines, and made a try at the 301 m.p.h. land speed record established by Sir Malcolm Campbell two years...
...first was an enormous electrical appliance. One janitor, in the know about the science of electricity, calls the work a "brain-tester," while another janitor, a sceptic, firmly believes the gadget is a do luxe Sing-Sing model of an electric chair...
...technique requires an electrical gadget whose invention may bring Dr. Burr a Nobel Prize. In a box small enough to be carried around are four different kinds of electric batteries, a delicate galvanometre, two radio vacuum tubes, eleven resistors, one grid leak and four switches. "The actual construction should be undertaken by an experienced mechanic who is thoroughly familiar with radio set construction," says Dr. Burr, who is prepared to show any proper investigator a sketch of the wiring diagram...