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...most spine-chilling gadget of all-which was demonstrated at the maker's own showrooms farther downtown-was Remington Rand's complete television system for factory use. Called the "Vericon," it will permit a corporation president to see what is going on in any office by a mere flick of the switch...
...interesting gadget now being installed in communications companies' offices the world over is the automatic teletype printer-a kind of typewriter-substitute for the time-honored telegrapher's key. You can type out a message on the keyboard, have it automatically transmitted overseas by radio or cable circuits to come out in print on a teletype at the other...
...Navy has described the torture chamber which it will build at Johnsville, Pa. to test the effect of the hops, drops and altitude changes of high-speed airplanes upon the human body. The Navy's gadget is a gigantic merry-go-round with a cab twelve feet in diameter at the end of a 50-foot horizontal arm. When the arm is revolving 48 times a minute, the cab will circle at 173 m.p.h. At this speed everything inside it will be subjected to "a centrifugal force of 40 "Gs," much more than the most rugged man can stand...
Conn, a 35-year-old Cornell University graduate, patented his eradicator while working in the Navy's guided missile program. At war's end, he became a television engineer, in spare time worked on his invention in his midtown Manhattan apartment. His electronics gadget, a sound-operated relay, fits neatly into a six-inch-square box, which can be attached to any radio. It can also be used for other purposes. Conn turns his apartment lights on & off by giving a short, sharp whistle...
...fifth of the usual transmitter weight will be required henceforth for ordinary communication purposes with a device announced to the American Psychological Association recently by Dr. J. C. R. Licklider, lecturer in Psychology and research fellow at the Psyche-Acoustical Laboratory. Known as the premodulation clipper, the gadget uses a fraction of the normal power in transmitting speech in a distorted but intelligible...