Word: heater
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...changing of dressings had stopped, 2) they could bathe themselves and get around. They began to like it. "We're all taking flit guns of that stuff back to duty," said a discharged sailor as he packed his bag last week. Dr. Pendleton now has invented a small heater, powered by a 25-watt light bulb, to melt the wax and make it available quickly in ships' turrets...
Football. In Portsmouth, Ohio, monoxide fumes from a dressing-room heater drugged the Central Catholic football squad between halves. Wobbly and stupefied, they were taken to a hospital and treated after beating Ironton St. Joseph's High...
...solar-energy heater patented last week by Dr. Charles G. Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a tire less inventor of solar-energy machines. His newest eliminates many of the circulation pipes which made older models clumsy, costly, tricky. A concave cylindrical mirror, clockworked to follow the sun, focuses the solar rays on a vacuum-insulated tube filled with a heat-absorbing liquid such as black petroleum. As the petroleum heats, it rises to a reservoir, from which cool petroleum then descends into the heating element by gravity. As the reservoir gets hotter, it can be used for cooking...