Word: tubefuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free polio victims from dependence on the confining iron lung, the University of Minnesota's Dr. Frederick H. Van Bergen offers a respirator which breathes for the patient through a tube slipped into an incision in his windpipe. The size of a TV set, the gadget is easily wheeled around, plugs into ordinary house current, or if the power fails, can be cranked by hand-some patients can do it themselves...
...city's first elevavated structure, the Forest Hills lines, was completed. Eight years later, the Cambridge-Boston tube replaced the hourse cars on Massachusetts Avenue, and much of the transit equipment has been in constant use since that time...
Inventor Jay H. Robbins '56 took out U.S. patent number 2,722,216 last week for a safe and accurate device for self-administering eye drops which prevents spilling. The new eye-dropper is fitted with a bridge that straddles the nose, steadying the glass tube and enabling the user to squeeze the medicine into any part of the eye. Robbins pointed out that the "successful independent inventor is rapidly disappearing from the American scene." Large industry corners most of the patents, with the result that less than one percent of unassigned patients ever reach the public. He hopes, however...
TIRE PRICES are going up for the fifth time in a year. Firestone, Goodyear, U.S. Rubber and others have boosted prices from 1½% to 5% on all tube-type passenger, farm, and industrial tires. But most rubber producers will not increase their tubeless-tire prices...
...bomb that was triggered to go off when the coffin lid was lifted. However, the triumph of sepulchral gadgeteering was the "life signal," which offered mechanical surcease for the widespread terror of being accidentally buried alive. In such devices the victim was provided with a bell rope a speaking tube, an air vent or even a ladder...