Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Lister's ideas of cleanliness came into vogue, style was to keep everything wet with carbolic. Instrument tables were covered in towels wet with the acid, sponges were kept in it, the room was sprayed with carbolic acid until foggy. In those days catgut came in a five-foot coil to be soaked and sterilized by the doctors and "horsehair was obtained by going out to the ambulance stable and pulling out a handful from the tail of one of the horses...
Colonels Mallory and Duckworth set up rules: No man could become an instructor until he had six months' experience as a pilot, 300 hours on a twin-engine plane, two hours' cockpit instrument checking...
...device for calculating foolproof GM is called a Ralston Stability & Trim Indicator (Kenyon Instrument Co.). It is essentially an aluminum tray, engraved with a longitudinal cross section of the ship drawn to scale, which balances on a pair of knife edges. Weights, gauged to actual weight of cargo to be carried, are then placed over each hold on the diagram. The tray is then balanced by means of a sliding block, and the balance point is translated by graph directly into GM. Another pair of knife edges at right angles to the first can then be used to gauge...
...labored under only one peculiar disadvantage that I am aware of, but that one is incalculable. I mean my deafness. This does not endanger the accuracy of my information, I believe, as far as it goes, because I carry a trumpet of remarkable fidelity; an instrument moreover, which seems to exert some winning power, by which I gain more in tete-a-tete than is given to people who hear general conversation. Probably its charm consists in the new feeling of ease and privacy in conversing with a deaf person...
...still tough and exacting but he now can take along an automatic observer to handle the vitally important paper work. This mechanical secretary is the new electronic flight recorder developed (after nine years' work at a cost of $250,000) by Philadelphia's Brown Instrument Co., a division of Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator...