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...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...
When Tommy Beecham was born, in 1879, the elaborate Beecham home, in St. Helens near Liverpool, already contained an assortment of pianos and pipe organs. Beecham père soon added the latest gadget in mechanical music, a reed orchestrion, which made Wagner sound like a merry-go-round. Tommy listened to it by the hour, vowed he would devote his life to music. Beecham's Pills made possible a musical education at home and abroad. Tommy learned much as accompanist to the late great French baritone Victor Maurel. But the pills were not always an unmixed blessing. When...
When the war began, plastics were far past the gadget stage. They were passing the stage of being chiefly substitute materials. Now, pushed by wartime technology, plastics are major materials in their own right. There are many new types, and plastics are preferred for many jobs. The full catalogue would be long and complex. Suggestive items...