Word: meter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ahead, road crews strengthened bridges and culverts. The trailer crept over them carefully, while a vibration meter-connected with a microphone inside the case-reported each tremor of the mirror. But the driver needed no admonition. Like everyone else in the cavalcade, he knew that man's latest bright hope of understanding the universe was riding behind his truck...
Please permit me to correct a confusion of terms which appeared in TIME, Nov. 3, under the title "A Geiger Counter for Everybody. "The gadget" which is there described is not a Geiger counter but an ionization chamber type of meter. The distinction is ... vital for the proper protection ... of persons who are exposed to radiation...
...ionization chamber, on the other hand, has a response that is proportional to the ionization that the particles produce in passing through the chamber. . . . The response is therefore proportional to the potential body damage. This must be true in any health protection meter that really protects...
Incidentally, a much more widely used and better-known relative of the meter that you described in the article is the Gamma Ray Pocket Dosimeter. Latest models are no b.rger than a fountain pen. They are worn with a clip in the pocket, and indicate at any time during the day the total quantity of radiation that the wearer has absorbed and so whether it is safe to continue at work. (DR.) O. G. LANDSVERK Chicago...
...welfare, not private pleasure, and should therefore be large-scale and easy to understand. The three men formed the nucleus of a union-the Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors-and negotiated contracts with an extraordinarily sympathetic and discerning government to paint murals at so much per square meter...