Word: gadgetized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...temperature of the sea was described last week by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution of Woods Hole, Mass. Originally developed by Henry Stommel and Donald Parson, the thermometer measures the long-wave radiation from the sea and from it shows whether the water is warm or cold. The gadget has been used successfully to track the inner edge of the Gulf Stream, distinguishing it from colder inshore water all the way from Florida up to George's Bank, off Cape...
...wandering wind that blows at high altitude, often as fast as 200 m.p.h. (TIME, Oct. i, 1951). Weathermen have been keeping track of it with sounding balloons, but the process is slow and expensive. Last week Meteorologist R. E. Falconer of General Electric Research Laboratory told about an electrical gadget that can tell when the jet-stream comes within 200 miles of Schenectady. The gadget "feels" the air for positive or negative charges, then writes its findings with a pen on a moving strip of paper. An unusually high positive reading means that the jet-stream is near...
...Cincinnati, Audio Controls Corp. offered a gadget to throttle TV commercials. Named Blab-Off, the device is a simple, remote-control sound switch, advertised to eliminate the "long, loud, vulgar, boring commercials that force their way into your living room." While the advertising spiel goes off, the TV picture stays on, so that viewers can tell when the commercial is over and switch the sound on again. Price: $2.98. Advertisements for Blab-Off have been refused by The New Yorker Magazine, the New York Times and the Herald Tribune, possibly because the sales pitch was right up there with...
...Force Cambridge (Mass.) Research Center now tells of a gadget specially designed to do the job from a high-flying rocket. Developed at the University of Colorado, the "sun-seeker" has 21 photoelectric cells that peek from doors opened in the nose of the rocket as it climbs toward the top of the atmosphere. Sunlight falling on the cells tells them just where the sun is. They take note of this information and keep a spectrographic camera pointing straight at the sun, even though the rocket may be rolling...
...Bela Bartok Street, and placed in a barrel-shaped container which rolled around and around like the Barrel of Laughs at a carnival. Hours later he was taken out, spitting blood but still unable to name a guilty American. The Communists strapped him in a chair under a gadget like a beauty-shop hair drier that shot small electric charges into his skull. He screamed for release and tried desperately to think of an American name-any American name-that might satisfy his torturers, but he could think of none...