Word: detector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some industries use X rays to look for flaws in their products, but the apparatus is expensive, cumbersome. This week G E announced a new X-ray detector that enables simple equipment to do many inspecting jobs...
...warn her of radiation, Mrs. MacDonald has a portable Geiger counter linked to a detector tube in the garden. When the counter sets off an alarm bell, Mrs. MacDonald will go to her shelter, taking the counter with her to connect up inside so that she will know when the area is clear of radiation and she can safely...
...Chicago, the Argonne National Laboratory perfected a new radiation-detector which is smaller than a cigarette, weighs only a quarter of an ounce, can be worn on clothing like a fountain...
...well trained. Once again I see refugees on this road. But there's a difference. Our own men, marines, surround them. As the jeep comes toward them I witness something of an advance in American communication with the people of the country. A marine is passing a mine detector over the clothing and packs of the refugees. Any metal-a rifle barrel, a pistol, a clip of ammunition, maybe the parts of a radio-will presumably be spotted by the detector. Anyhow, it is better than guns and the policemen whom I have seen at work...
...mine detector, the helicopters, the boy on the roadside-here, after a fashion, was communication between the American West and the people of South Korea. And, so thinking, I reflected as the jeep bumped into Pusan that the machine age and the machine man of the West can be pretty wonderful. But machines still can't talk to people, not as we must learn-and learn very soon-to talk to the people of Asia...