Word: gadgeteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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California's Lane-Wells Co. has the combination to a safe packed with black gold. It specializes in getting oil from wells that have run dry. By literally shooting out the oil with a gadget called a gun perforator, Lane-Wells has increased the yield of U.S. wells by an estimated $200 million. Last week, with demand for oil at a peak, the company was booming as never before. For five consecutive months, it has grossed more than $1,000,000 a month. With a second-quarter net of $1,143,200, Lane-Wells was earning around...
Last week Charles A. McPheeters, of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, told a little about one such device now under development: a gadget that watches stars like a human navigator and steers the missile by them. It identifies the proper stars (from one to three) by measuring their brightness or their "color temperature." Then, guided by their relation to one another or to the center of the earth, it can keep the missile on its predetermined course...
...elevator's rope cable with a knife. Others, as far back as Archimedes, had built vertical hoists of one kind or another, but Otis was the first to build one with an automatic safety catch to keep it from falling. It was a kind of ratchet, like the gadget that prevents the spring on a mechanical toy from unwinding...
...thrown away the big money she used to make singing with Paul Whiteman and the Rhythm Boys (Bing Crosby, Harry Barris and Al Rinker, who is Mildred's brother) -back in the days when people used to sit up until after midnight listening to that still novel gadget, radio. She had done all right, too, with the band that she and husband Red Norvo (now divorced) had for years...
...secret of Rouxcolor is a lens which is divided into four parts, each with a filter for a different color (red, yellow, green, blue). The four-in-one lens "decomposes" light, making four different images on the film. (A gadget prevents distortion of the images in relation to each other.) When projected through a similar lens, the four-color images are "recomposed" into one color picture. The color of the projected image on the screen is given, not by the film as in other processes, but by the four-in-one lens through which the black-&-white film is projected...