Word: microvivarium
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...Industrial Exhibits generally are 1939 all over again in theme, but some are new in detail. Typical changes: General Motors put more local, authentic scenery in its vast Futurama; Westinghouse's robot has an electrified dog to keep him company, its Microvivarium (kills germs with sterilizing rays) has been renamed Micro-blitzkrieg. Brand-new: Henry Ford's A Thousand Times Neigh, wherein a synthetic horse comes back to report on the evolution of the automobile; Du Font's Nylon factory...
...ideas in their curators' heads, which they want to show the public. In a new Hall of Man they want to show "man's embryology, development of his body, unfolding of his behavior, his genetics, and a resume of his achievements over the ages." They want a microvivarium to show how ameba and other one-cell animals live. They want to show how to farm frogs, how to make pocketbooks from snake skins...
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