Word: oxygenator
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oxygen Debt. In a room that looks more like a home-economics lab than a hospital ward, women wash and iron clothes, bake custards and brownies, make dresses on a sewing machine. Men work in carpentry, repair the sewing machine (the actual trade of one patient), walk to and from a desk carrying stacks of books, use filing cabinets. Pulse checks are made before, during and after any exertion, but the most valuable gauge of heart strain is a gadget called a "respiration gasmeter," which tells Dr. Steinberg most of what he wants to know...
...Planck Institute of Dortmund, Germany, weighs 81 Ibs., is about the size of a lunchbox, and includes a transparent face mask attached to the box by a flexible hose. It operates on the principle that physical work involves energy consumption that can be measured by the amount of oxygen the body consumes. Air expelled from the patient's lungs during a work period is collected through the face mask and stored in an orange balloon. Then the balloon is detached and its contents analyzed. Measurement of the amount of unused oxygen tells Dr. Steinberg whether the patient...
...Maverick Bunker, 56, has been selling off his least profitable operations and building a nest egg that now amounts to $150 million. On the other hand, Thompson Ramo Wooldridge has the biggest industrial process-control operation in the U.S., supplies devices to such firms as U.S. Steel (to control oxygen furnaces) and Riverside Cement (to regulate cement blending). But TRW did not have capital enough to develop the business and make it profitable. With Martin putting up the cash and owning 90% of the new corporation, Bunker will be chairman and chief executive officer of the company; Dr. Simon Ramo...
...Outside a spaceship, where he may be called upon to make repairs, he will have to maneuver in zero gravity; his clothing will have toward off solar heating twice as strong as on the earth's surface. Any space suit will have to be equipped with a portable oxygen supply and its own air-conditioning apparatus...
...suicide closes the garage door, runs a hose into his car from the tail pipe, and sits inside the car with the engine running. Carbon monoxide, in such heavy doses, is one of the deadliest of gases. It gets into the blood and starves the brain of vital oxygen. The victim turns red and usually dies. But doctors have been arguing for decades about the effects of small doses of monoxide poison over long periods. Only recently have they begun to collect evidence that such small doses may do permanent damage to the brain...