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...spray gun is a fist-fitting gadget which trails three rubber hoses and a ⅛-in. wire-the charge. Two of the hoses feed acetylene and oxygen (as in welding) to a 6,300° F. flame, melting the wire. From the third hose, compressed air blows the hot-metal droplets in a molten mist that coats a surface with a smooth film as tough as a weld...
...some quick figuring on what to do when the glasses got broken. (About 15% of the men in the armed forces wear glasses.) Last week the Army trotted out the mechanized answer-a truck-borne optical shop, designed by A. Turner Wells of American Optical Co. The oversize gadget packs $20,000 worth of lenses, frames, grinders, etc., can repair the spectacles of an army of 300,000 within rifle shot of the front. Military myopics of World War I had to grope their way back to base hospitals for glasses-which often did not catch up with them...
...which many industries had to shelve would have precipitated great advances within five years. And other farseeing scientists like Vannevar Bush concede a short-term gain for applied science but a long-term loss, for the ultimate wellspring of technological progress is in fundamental, "pure" research, far from the gadget factory...
Pound or Pour? Sample military gadget is a machine-gun trunnion block, on which the gun swivels. When it is forged, i.e.., pounded, into rough shape out of a hot chunk of steel, it weighs 20 lb. In machining the block into shape, 14 lb. of steel is drilled, planed and ground away before the crude lump becomes a finished 6-lb. trunnion block...
Carpentered by NBC scripters from the official warden's handbook, last week's program was produced with elaborate stage sets in NBC's glare-lit, gadget-hedged television studios. It took a typical warden in & out of brownstones and apartment houses, into a blacked-out street ("Get off the streets, Miss. ... If you can get home in five minutes, do so.") It was repeated six times a day for three days. From the number of pupils in attendance, police figured that in six weeks 54,000 wardens should know their stuff...