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...standard yardstick" of music, to which instruments are tuned, is the "true A": a note with 440 vibrations a second. Musicians have now acquired an accurate, electronic gadget for sounding their...
Sears got into gloating position by putting a revolutionary gadget on the market last week: a table-model radio-phonograph containing a wire recorder. The recorder gobbles up radio programs, phonograph records, children's talk and business conferences on a spool of steel wire, can play them back immediately. The wire can be electrically erased, re-used indefinitely...
...experimenters had to invent a fiendishly ingenious gadget for keeping their rats awake. Cylindrical treadmills revolved slowly in cells half full of water. If the rat did not keep awake, he got dunked and had to scramble back...
...office-furniture industry does not neglect the executive's helpers. On display at the same Chicago show last week was a new automatic typewriter-a gadget which makes up business letters from numerous combinations of recorded sentences (e.g., "yours of the tenth inst. rec'd."). The canned prose is recorded on a roll (something like grandfather's player piano), the roll is inserted in the machine, buttons are pressed for the desired combination, and the machine automatically types them into a letter. Price for this wonder...
Though London's critics unanimously and openly sneered, Howard Hughes's sexsational The Outlaw was playing to record crowds at the London Pavilion. Last week 23-year-old Pressagent Suzanne Warner hit a headline jackpot. She lured a psychologist with a psycho-galvanometer (a gadget that measures emotional reactions) into the Pavilion. Her report: ¶ Critic Walter Wilcox of the Sunday Dispatch, who had penned a cool review, had a warm, 24-centimeter reaction to a close-up of Jane Russell's parted lips. ¶Hostile Critic Dick Richards of the Sunday Pictorial registered a more-than...