Word: modell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oops! In Astoria, Ore., Donald Riswick received his prefabricated house, started setting it up, took another look at it, pulled it down and sent it back to the factory (in five trucks) ; it was not the model he had ordered...
...thing a radioactive world needs is a good "atom-sized" Geiger counter. Last week the University of Chicago proudly displayed a handy, hip-pocket model. The new gadget is so easy to read that anybody can tell when his surroundings become dangerously radioactive...
...pocket model was developed by Dr. O. G. Landsverk and two aids as a wartime device (e.g., to protect troops in such hazardous spots as blasted Hiroshima). The military now thinks it is all right for civilians to know about it. The instrument's chief working parts are a small chamber, a bronze wire (charged by a battery) and a fine, platinum-coated quartz fiber one-thirtieth the thickness of a human hair. When X rays or gamma rays enter the chamber, they leave a trail of ions which collect on the wire, neutralize its charge and move...
Unlike the standard Geiger counter, which may record radiation by a series of clicks, the pocket model does its recording on a lighted scale. The user just presses a button; if the fiber moves across the scale, he can be pretty sure that he is being bombarded by unhealthy radiation...
Between the preliminary and final editions of the current catalogue, the Anthropology Department changed its announcements from something approaching zero to something approaching a model for such laconic departments as Economics, Government, and Social Relations. Its descriptions do not challenge the ideal set up by the General Education courses, but space limitations bar universal application of such liberal accounts. Nevertheless, the few lines it devotes to each of its offerings, at a time when the advisory system frequently consists of a semi-annual signature, provide non-concentrators with some concept of what the course is about. This leads to wiser...