Word: gadgetized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
High horsepower is a necessity for today's gadget-laden cars. The new automatic transmission, power brakes, power steering, power seat, and power window lift already bleed as much as 10 to 20 h.p. from the engine. And there is no stopping the gadgeteers: the latest air-conditioning units take another 10 h.p. to cool the air inside the car. Apart from the power-robbing gadgets, few engines ever develop horsepower figures contained in the advertising blurbs. Most automakers measure horsepower by means of a dynamometer: the engine is stripped of its load, ideally tuned and hooked up directly...
...Navy's Chance Vought XFSU-1 tighter, Marquardt Aircraft Co. has developed a new gadget to take care of this sticky situation. It is a "ram-air power unit," weighing less than 50 lbs., that can be popped into the air stream if the engine stops. Air blowing through it spins a turbine at 6,000 r.p.m., and the power developed (25 h.p.) provides electrical current for the airplane's radio. It also keeps pressure in the hydraulic system that works the controls and landing gear. With the little turbine spinning outside the fuselage the pilot can call...
Even the most distinguished presentation of the week, NBC's two-hour-long production of the ANTA revival of The Skin of Our Teeth, was in some measure a sales pitch for mankind in general. Concocted for the theater when the iconoscope was still a gadget little known outside the laboratory, Playwright Thornton Wilder's crazy, mixed-up parable of the human race is a tale told largely in TV's own terms. Its soap-opera domestic situation, its firm reliance on interpolated newsreels, its constant comic interruptions and its narrow escapes from the maudlin...
Another new gadget that does dead reckoning for aircraft is made by Ford Instrument Co. Simpler than the Ryan job, it estimates the effect of the wind in advance. Then it records the air speed and the course the airplane follows. It puts the whole thing together and figures out the airplane's position on a map. Average accuracy on a 1,000-mile flight: within about six miles...
...rear fenders and bigger taillights. In addition, all lines will have a new four-door, hardtop model, pushbutton selectors on the dashboard for automatic transmissions, "lifeguard" door latches to prevent doors from popping open in accidents, and optional seat belts. Plymouth will have a new, higher-powered engine. Fanciest gadget in the line is a "Highway Hi-Fi," a CBS record player that can be mounted just below the center of the instrument panel. Price: less than...