Word: gadgeteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...panels (price: 5,600 lire, or $9). The Italian government's Health Department has installed some 120 in hospital chapel confessionals. Rome's Pontifical Canadian College has ordered 30. Orders have streamed in from Germany and Switzerland. Said one priest from the Abruzzi mountains: "This gadget is a godsend-especially when one's parishioners, like mine, feast upon onions and garlic...
Last week the Navy told how it solves the target problem with Pogo, a cheap gadget developed at New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. When the control center at White Sands Proving Ground wants a target for its deadly missiles to kill, it signals the crew of a target launcher parked out on the desert. A small, solid propellant rocket roars into the sky. When it reaches 40,000 feet or higher, a spring pushes its nose off, releasing a parachute whose silk is covered with a thin film of silver. The silver reflects radar waves like...
Religion may be the opium of the people, but to a Russian propagandist it can be a mighty handy gadget. Last week the Kremlin's latest piece of religious propaganda dropped right out of the sky over Turkey...
...repossessing an automobile. The two approached four locked cars, and using burglars' tools and master keys, opened the doors. As the camera peered over their shoulders, they showed how to "hot wire" a car (i.e., bypass the ignition lock) to start the engine. Then they demonstrated another favorite gadget of "repo" men: an equalizer tube for quick inflation of tires in case delinquent owners have deliberately flattened tires to ward off repossession. The collection agents, legally entitled to repossess cars parked in public areas, explained that they sometimes ply their trade even when a car is on private property...
...gadget has advantages over the old: instead of a handful of eavesdroppers, millions can listen: instead of guarded talk, the callers have unlimited misplaced confidence in their privacy...