Word: gadgetized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that were not enough, the board's president, Mrs. Eleanor Allen, suddenly ran into some personal difficulties when she testified in federal court that a mysterious radiotherapy gadget, invented by a Hollywood chiropractor, could cure her of any illness, even though she were a thousand miles away. As a result of the unfavorable publicity, Mrs. Allen resigned from the board...
...Chicago. By good fortune, a member of Presbyterian's staff, Dr. Don Fisher, had built one for himself with $32 worth of electrical equipment. As the second hour of Nurse Timke's ordeal wore on, somebody in the operating room remembered Dr. Fisher's untried gadget...
...invention, an angled leg for the conveyor belt, saved two-thirds of the time ordinarily required to shift heavy conveyor pans used to carry coal from the working face to mine cars, eliminated the need for knocking out mine props while the conveyor pans were being moved. For the gadget, the company last week paid Brown...
This week, at the Air Force's School of Aviation Medicine, scientists were busy perfecting an accurate little gadget that will warn the high-altitude flyer when the oxygen in his bloodstream is dropping toward the danger point. Clamped on the translucent cartilage of a pilot's ear, a tiny light bulb emitting red and infra-red rays will shine through the ear lobe to illuminate a small photoelectric cell. As the oxygen saturation of the pilot's blood drops below its normal 98%, it will turn a darker, heavier red. Less light will filter through...
Here is as versatile a gadget as we've seen since the invention of the flashlight. Officially termed by the BICYCLE EXCHANGE at 3 Bow Street, a Berec Handlamp and Cyclechamp. It hooks on to almost anything. It clips to a belt, clamps on a bike handle, suspends from any bar, sits on the ground, and can even be carried in the hand. It takes two regular flashlight batteries, and sells...