Word: gadgeted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Signal Corps did not describe the gadget used to generate the waves. Neither did it tell the military objective of the experiments. The Germans tried with no success to use sound as a military weapon in World War II, but their devices were comparatively crude. The Signal Corps may see some possibility of killing not only mice...
Instantaneous Audience Measurement Service was invented by Dr. Peter C. Goldmark, 40, CBS's bashful, brilliant chief engineer and color television genius. I.A.M.S.'s listening posts will be little black gadget boxes attached to the family radio in "scientifically selected" homes. These boxes, responding to signals from station transmitters, will flash radio messages back at the rate of one a minute. At the station, these thousands of messages will be electronically counted and translated into graphs showing a program's minute-to-minute popularity...
...gadget is not so new as it sounds; the U.S. Patent Office has similar inventions on file, dating back to 1931. The big difference is that CBS plans to give I.A.M.S. a dress preview early next year, with a national hookup to follow as soon as possible...
Please permit me to correct a confusion of terms which appeared in TIME, Nov. 3, under the title "A Geiger Counter for Everybody. "The gadget" which is there described is not a Geiger counter but an ionization chamber type of meter. The distinction is ... vital for the proper protection ... of persons who are exposed to radiation...
Vest-Pocket Vesuvius. A hot drink can easily be prepared in a snowstorm with a new pestle-like gadget called the Heatron Stirrer. It has a small cylinder on one end vhich contains a cartridge-like charge. Immersed in liquid, the stirrer gives off enough fumeless heat to bring a cup of water to the boiling point. Price, including six charges...