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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...
Last week the research ship Albatross of the Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institute returned from a 22,000-mile Atlantic cruise with new information about the Gulf Stream obtained by a gadget called the Geomagnetic Electrokinetograph. GEK is a steel box full of vacuum tubes which analyzes electrical information from two electrodes trailed behind the ship. When the ship is swung 90° in one direction and then 180° in the other direction, the electrodes interact with the earth's magnetic field and so measure the motion of the water in relation to the sea's bottom...
...years, off & on, Mr. Zerbee dreamed about a gadget that would absorb simple observations of the stars and compute a ship's position without any figuring at all. The job was not simple; many men, including the ancient Greeks, had tried it and failed. But six years ago, Zerbee worked out a method that was good enough to impress a retired naval officer whom he met in Florida. Three years later Zerbee had completed a crude model that would find the position of his Estero Island cottage on the map with an error of only seven miles...
...Payson, toy manufacturer of Hackensack, N.J., announced that her firm would stop making penny banks, concentrate on toy banks that took coins of higher mintage. These days, she said, "most children do not show much appreciation for anything less than a dime." ¶ The bug shield-that plastic gadget on the snouts of innumerable cars, designed to deflect bugs (and snow) from the windshield-received a legal setback. Connecticut banned it on the ground that it obstructed the driver's view of the road. ¶ The city of Frederick, Md. (pop. 18,000), whose place in literature was made...
...Night Watch. In Philadelphia, Morgan J. Lewis, 49, perfected a new window gadget to baffle burglars: a trip wire which starts a motor, which dials "Operator" and plays a recording: "Send police at once. The home has been unlawfully entered...