Word: gadgetized
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...canny Advertising Manager Thomas F. Joyce decided that: 1) the phonograph industry needed more incurable record collectors, 2) many potential incurables were being kept from record-collecting by the high price of good phonographs. On the market, but little appreciated by the public at the time, was a gadget known as a Record Player, which could convert any radio into a practical, high-fidelity phonograph. If, argued Advertising Manager Joyce, more Record Players could be sold, everybody who owned a radio might catch the itch. Upshot of this idea: the Victor Record Society. Membership (at $14.95) in the Society, entitled...
...Legislature in a special session to vote some of the State's widely advertised $25,000,000 surplus into a pump-priming building program. Of greater interest to most Indianians was a much smaller piece of business-reconsideration of a highly unpopular Townsend act called the Gadget Law. Every Indiana motorist was required to buy from the State for 25? a celluloid container for his registration card, which he had to stick on his windshield so that his name and address clearly showed. Aside from the probable graft involved in this 25? gadget which cost the State only...
Think is the slogan of International Business Machines Corp., and last week I. B. M. representatives showed the commissioners a gadget which will make them think plenty. I. B. M. Radiotype Division General Manager Walter S. Lemmon rigged on the roof over the commissioner's hearing room a temporary aerial, demonstrated a typewriter on which the keys click in response to radio impulses, picked up a message typewritten through the air from a Georgetown laboratory. Engineer Lemmon told the commission that one television station wavelength assignment would be roomy enough for 1,125 radio-typewriter channels, asked that...
...startling as a Ouija, the small, two-pound, dial-topped box, bare of any wire connections to the receiving set, changes the receiver's tuning from station to station, raises and lowers volume. Selection is made by a gadget that looks like a telephone dial. The gadget can be carried indoors & out, works the receiver from any point within 75 feet. Philco officials are not revealing the principle of operation, letting it be known only that a radio tube and a dry cell are parts of the mechanism. The control works exclusively with the set to which...
...century scientists have been polarizing light with small natural crystals. Lately a synthetic polarizing material called Polaroid has been developed which can be fabricated into large sheets. In American Optical Co.'s gadget, light from an illuminated test chart first passes through a disk of Polaroid. The person being tested looks through a pair of polarizing lenses, one vertical, one horizontal. By rotating the first disk, the examiner can cut out the vision of either eye at will, so that the subject does not know with which eye he is seeing. It is thus impossible...