Word: gadget
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eureka! . . . down at Manny Vezie's Gallery of Shoe Reconstruction, we have a contraption priced at $7.50 that cannot be worth a shiny steel penny. It is useless, badly designed, overpriced . . . what it is supposed to be is a shoe shining set. . . . It's a silly gadget. We promise you you don't want...
Gizmo-a term of universal significance, capable of meaning "gadget," "stuff," "thing," "whozis" or almost anything else the speaker wants...
...gadget for inspecting tires that uses high-frequency sound waves (supersonics) to detect flaws. A tire is put under water and supersonic vibrations passed through it; if the tire is sound, the vibrations are recorded smoothly on a microphone and the gadget shows a green light. But if the vibrations hit an air bubble or break in the tire, the microphone's current drops, a light turns...
...assembly would make it a valuable weapon for parachutists. But other officers wondered privately whether the M-3 might not be destined to serve as a "revolt gun," to be dropped by parachute to the rebellious people of conquered Europe when the time is ripe. Colonel Studler's gadget will never stir a gunsmith's soul, but to a despairing Pole. Czech or Dutchman it might look like a rare and lovely objet...
...Army & Navy technicians had given the nod to a highly portable little gadget called the Magnetic Wire Sound Recorder-an instrument about the size of a portable typewriter. It records the human voice and other sounds within earshot...