Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Medical School associate and his colleague have devised an instrument enabling them to examine the heart without using surgery...
...device--a so-called "fiber optics instrument"--consists of a long thin tube that is inserted into the heart. The tube is made of a bundle of 70,000 glass fibers which transmit an image from the inserted end to the viewer...
...fiber optics instrument allows heart defects and functions that cannot be detected by x-ray and electrocardiogram, to be seen and filmed, Dr. Gamble said. It makes possible direct visualization of the color, shape, texture, and motion of the heart, Dr. Gamble said, without necessitating surgery...
...Oboist Carl Schlaikjer was shaky in the second movement, but recovered by the sixth and spun out some of the most mellifluous, well-shaped line I have ever heard. To the flute, Mahler has given a number of improvisatory, melismatic solos that rank with Debussy's writing for the instrument; and principal Michael Tabak must be the original Chinese flute...
...study he headed while working at Long Island's Kollsman Instrument Corp., Moskowitz and his co-workers plotted a hypothetical space flight to the star 45 Eridani, barely visible to the naked eye from earth and some 466 light-years away. Picking well-known stars in 45 Eridani's region of the sky, he fed data about their positions, distance and absolute brightness into a computer programmed to generate the appropriate star map for any point along the route of the flight...