Word: gadgeteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether "The Wellesley" will ever take the place of the well-scoured bath tub or the well-flattened elbow is not yet clear. And there exists in some doubt as to whether Hopson's ingenious gadget will threaten the existence of the bottle-opener or the swizzle-stick...
...thing a radioactive world needs is a good "atom-sized" Geiger counter. Last week the University of Chicago proudly displayed a handy, hip-pocket model. The new gadget is so easy to read that anybody can tell when his surroundings become dangerously radioactive...
...painless substitute for the hypodermic needle was reported last week. The revolutionary gadget, called the "hypospray," is a kind of air gun that shoots an injection under the skin in a spray so fine that the patient usually does not feel...
...psycho-acoustic laboratory, the two doctors were working on earphones for the Navy. The listeners began to report strange, crunching sounds whenever they wore special earphones enclosing a small cavity. The sounds were at first discounted as mere heart thumps and breathing wheezes. But the investigators contrived a homemade gadget to clamp the earphones in place...
...Baldwin says, there isn't enough air to breathe. A special bottle of oxygen may fix that. But the "opening shock" at high altitudes is too great to risk. It is better to fall into denser air before using the parachute. Wright Field has developed a gadget that opens the chute at the proper altitude, whether the pilot is conscious...