Word: socketed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coffee. A coffee maker that plugs into an auto dashboard socket has been put on the market by Technische Apparate Vertriebsgesellschaft, West Germany. The gadget signals with a whistle when the water boils, pours it onto instant coffee, cocoa or a tea bag with the turn of a knob. Price...
Since that conversation, I have asked several other correspondents about their moving and housing problems. All of them had something to add to Neville's observations. London Correspondent Gene Farmer reported an unusual kind of trouble with electrical appliances. There are about 165 different kinds of wall sockets in use in the London area, he said. Before they bought a new plug for their sewing machine, Mrs. Farmer had to decide which room to put it in. Now, if that room is cold, he said, "she either freezes or doesn't sew, because the plug...
...young Spanish physiologist to tell of what he has learned from monkeys. Dr. José M. Rodrigues Delgado has drilled holes in the skulls of anesthetized rhesus monkeys, jabbed fine electrodes (1/200 of an inch in diameter) deep into their brains, and carried connecting wires out to a tiny socket of the type used in midget radios. The sockets are attached at the back of the animal's head. The monkeys recover quickly from the operation, appear to feel no discomfort, and go about their monkey business as usual. Then, by plugging into the sockets and making connections with...
Dashboard Shaver. North American Phillips Co. put on the market an electric shaver (the Norelco Sportsman) that operates on three flashlight batteries, can also be plugged into an automobile cigarette lighter socket. Price...
...hypodermic needles connected to a wall socket can revive a heart that has stopped, beating, Dr. Paul M. Zoll '32, Associate in Medicine of the Medical School, announced yesterday...