Word: rods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small metal ball vibrating rapidly at the end of a stiff, springy rod is just as obstinate as a rotating gyroscope. It tries to keep vibrating in the same direction, no matter what its support may do. Sperry engineers wondered if a "vibrating gyroscope" might not be more efficient than the more conventional rotating type. There would be no bearings to worry about, and the ball could be kept in motion by the modern magic of electronics. So they dove deep into physics and mathematics...
...together a fascinating booklet on the subject (Water-supply Paper 416; 15?) which told the history of the dowsers, beginning with Moses, who lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly (Numbers 20: 11). Few modern dowsers hoped to equal Moses, but some of them offered prizes, such as oilfields or mineral deposits, which Moses and his nomads never coveted...
...date divining rod-for oil-was announced last week by California's Union Oil Co. It was a scheme for finding oil in shallow coastal waters: a steel diving chamber, which Union Oil plans to use off the Louisiana coast this month...
...Sprag: a "billet of wood or a rod used . . . for checking a vehicle from running backward...
...statesmen of the UNO the atomic bomb is something of a headache, but to L. Don Leet, associate professor of Geology, it is just a divining rod. According to observations he made at the original trial of the bomb in the New Mexican Desert, released to the press last week, the atomic bomb will be useful not only for Japanese slum clearance and the disposal of the USS New York but also in finding oil and plotting earthquakes. Leet, who makes a hobby of collecting earthquakes, revealed that the atomic bomb added something new to seismology that has heretofore been...