Word: raytheon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dilution. Tracerlab's President Barbour is an M.I.T.-trained electrical engineer who had made a killing in Massachusetts' Raytheon Manufacturing Co. stock. He risked the major part ($26,000) of Tracerlab's first capital and started making an "Autoscaler," a highly sensitive machine for hospitals and laboratories to measure radioactivity. Tracerlab also began marketing elements which had been made radioactive by insertion in the Oak Ridge atomic pile. Tracerlab put these radioactive isotopes in usable chemical forms for hospitals and laboratories...
...Buyers were shying away from the high ($50 to $150) cost of installing and servicing aerials; worse still, many an apartment landlord was forbidding any more installations on his already cluttered rooftop, thus hitting hard at the big city audience, television's best market. To meet this threat, Raytheon Manufacturing Co. and Chicago's Earl ("Madman") Muntz had each brought out sets with built-in aerials, which gave fair service in areas where signals were strong...
Heat Wave. During the war, employees of the Raytheon Co., which made magnetron (microwave) tubes for radar, found that they could give themselves diathermy ("deep heat") treatments by standing near tubes on the test rack. Some of them got so enthusiastic that they thought the waves could "cure anything...
...Raytheon had no such illusions, but its researchers did notice that the microwaves definitely helped certain conditions. They decided that the very short (five inch) waves from the tubes could be used as an improved sort of diathermy, to heat tissues deep in the body...
Last week's conference heard that the Raytheon Microtherm has advantages over ordinary diathermy. The beam of tiny waves can be concentrated on a small part of the body, heating it strongly, while leaving nearby parts unaffected. Conventional diathermy, with its 20-ft.-plus waves, heats larger areas...