Word: gadgetized
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...Admiral Richardson, talking across the gadget-littered desk, did not respond to the President's ebullience. He was in tensely worried ; he had been brooding for months over the crowded anchorage at Pearl Harbor, the fleet's lack of manpower, ammunition, shore defenses, a proper supply train. Neither the Navy nor the nation, he had concluded, was ready...
...increase their broadcasting time to a minimum of 28 hours a week (twice as much as the present best average in New York). This boost in time will encourage manufacturers to rush new sets. Thus far, a price up to $500 has been too steep for such an idle gadget...
...gadget is a ring-shaped, gas-filled flash tube around the lens. When the shutter opens, a whopping charge of electricity (2,000 volts) surges through the tube from a condenser, with a light as bright as the sun. The flash is so bright that the natural lighting of the subject doesn't matter. A child can move his head or blink his eyes without blurring the picture. The flash lasts only about one-25,000th of a second. Photographed at this speed, even the humming blades of an electric fan appear to be standing still...
...camera was developed for the Surgeon General's Office, which wanted rapid, perfect, foolproof pictures of surgical operations. The inventors have great hopes for it. At present the gadget is a typical military job: too expensive and too heavy. The "power-pack" which provides the current weighs 27 Ibs. But by spring, it may be streamlined for the civilian market into a lighter, more practical model...
Bell's gadget may change all this. On a luminous screen, a deaf person can see his own spoken words and compare them with the pictured speech of an instructor. This allows him to improve his speech by imitation and by trial & error...