Word: gadgeteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brodie system" was designed for light liaison planes. The masts and cables would be hard for an enemy to spot from the air and could be set up quickly in tough terrain. In peacetime, the gadget may well prove useful in mountainous jungles or swampy country where clearing a landing strip is too difficult or too expensive...
Basic tool of Renshaw's method is a gadget for flashing images briefly on a screen. Students are given no time to ponder details; they have to grasp the whole picture fast. Renshaw starts them off with a four-digit number, showing it for 1/50th of a second. As the students learn, the numbers get longer. A student recently reproduced a twelve-digit number (568790154123) after looking at it for less than a second...
Adapting radar to peacetime jobs was a tough reconversion problem. Chief obstacle: cost. A good ground-based set costs $75,000. Even a portable, airborne set ($4,000) has little future as a household gadget. Radar's first peacetime jobs will probably be in ship navigation* and on the airways...
Last week the President also: ¶Awarded the D.S.M. to Harry Hopkins. ¶Went to his first ball game as President. ¶ Received a new fez, signifying that he is a Past Potentate of Ararat Shrine, Kansas City; and a three-sided desk gadget which has YES on one side, NO on the second, and SCRAM on the third...
Rigid precautions guarded the health of the workers. They all carried small electroscopes or bits of photographic film for nightly tests to show the amount of radiation to which each had been exposed. A gadget called "Sneezy" measured radioactive dust in the air; "Pluto" watched lab desks and instruments. Clothing was carefully checked. Devices rang an alarm when a radioactive worker came near...