Word: gadgeteers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prosthetics experts from the U.S. learned six years ago that the Russians were working on such an arm, but then the gadget needed a 500-lb. electrical-power unit to drive it. Now, Charles E Yesalis, an executive of Michigan's S. H. Camp & Co. (surgical appliances), has returned from a trip to Moscow carrying pictures and information about a far-advanced model that is completely portable and self-contained...
...York to honor a friend. "I want you to know how deeply I'm obligated and grateful to you," Ike told Dr. Paul Dudley White, 77, as he presented the heart specialist with a gold-plated stethoscope from the International Cardiology Foundation. Ike knew the gadget really worked, had already checked White's heart with it. The doctor was in the mood for gentle fun, too, calling Ike his "ideal" patient, who "through his most felicitous recovery-for which I thank him-promoted cardiology the world over...
...diagnoses as a would-be suicide; she borrows a pair of scissors from the operating room and nearly sends an appendicitis case back to surgery for a reopening when the shears turn up missing in the instrument count. Mercifully, she does not get her possum-petting hands on a gadget in the operating room that goes "ta-pocketa, ta-pocketa, ta-pocketa" while Dr. Cheswick assists on a tricky heart operation ("The microvalve is becoming more atresic," he mutters...
...beaver cage rarely came out in the daylight. It seemed as if the man and the broad-tailed mammals might never meet. Then a crew of Dutch technicians crept close to the edge of the beaver pond on a black, moonless night. They sighted in with a short, cylindrical gadget, and the director finally saw his beavers-scuttling across the face of a TV picture tube that had been set up in his office...
...would surely have been easier to give the director a flashlight and urge him to stay on the job after sundown; the mechanical eye that sees so well in the dark is far too expensive a gadget to be used for casual beaver watching. But the demonstration was impressive proof that the device invented by Dutch Physicist Albert Bouwers is astonishingly sensitive. Its practical applications seem limited only by the imagination of its users...