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After months of testing and inspecting complicated electronic devices, he found simple gadgets amusing.
During this process workers piled up mattresses beneath the gadget to cushion a possible fall.
Suppose whatever put those plastic gadgets on the fish doesn't want to be communicated with?
Then they recovered, switched on whatever gadget they use, and returned to their own dimension.
This gadget is adjusted to home on certain body temperatures which it can detect at some distance.
In brief, you were errand boy to a bunch of gadgets, with nothing to do but look important.
While we were testing the gadget an enemy submarine was depth-charged about three hundred yards off.
These were broken down, in another gadget implanted in my body, into oxygen, carbon and hydrogen.
They were some kind of circular gadgets, and they actually chased our planes a number of times.
The tire and wheel came from the back and went immediately into place on a complicated gadget.
By jamming a couple of the safety gadgets, it was possible to make the weapon fire out of phase.
Flanders accepted the little gadget from the other officer and inserted it in his own helmet.
When we mail out those gadgets to people all over the state, the place will be in an uproar.
The only thing this latter gadget did was to scatter more potential nuclei to the accommodating wind.
Put your money into pars about your yacht and your stables, if the 'Palatial Home' gadget's wearing thin.
Now are these views sound, Sir, or is it permissible, as one authority does, to describe persons as "gadgets"?
"One button's got a new-looking gadget rigged up to it that's pushed it twice now while I've been watching."
Atkins was an old man who didn't believe in new gadgets of any kind, and he wasn't convinced.
You say that gadget is designed to cause minute, but significant, changes in the velocities of small, moving objects.
"Mind how you come alongside with that gadget of yours," sung out the Lieutenant in command of the submarine.
With this gadget, neither Lambertson nor I know what impulse the box is going to throw at him.
He won't bother having anything done to you if he knows that the secret of the gadget is out already.
Actually, the massage gadgets acted as electrodes, and the massage oil did very well in making good contact.
Ever since Kenzie had started on the gadget, he had no time for us, or helping us with our problems.
Brook quickly turned towards his gadgets and frantically started to press buttons, turn knobs and adjust levers.
He considered the fact that his own pistol had exploded the instant he'd turned the gadget on.
When I returned with the parts he wanted, he got busy assembling the weirdest-looking gadget I have ever seen.
I just possibly might make a gadget that would create a cloud of ions around the person who carried it.
Though it ended up that way, since he had some neat gadgets for keeping track of people in the dark.
Either they were going to get tired of putting new tubes into that gadget, or play it softer, or move.
Religion for a sailor should be simple and free from the gadgets of ritual and all that sort of truck.
Rabelais looks over all the gadgets we have and those that are too much ahead of our time, he throws away.
Without the shadow of a doubt, the momentary cutting out of the "juice" was owing to Uncle Brian's "gadget".
The Chief had built up a habit of staying late, so he could stand and study over the Kenzie gadget.
Nancy and Pat had quite an interesting time exploring the back issues in search of gadgets to help the one-armed.
They listened respectfully to what Porter had to say and then built the gadgets he told them to build.
Piece by piece, through the glass partition of his office wall, the Chief watched the gadget being taken apart.
He indicated a group of Admiralty experts, both naval and civilian, gathered round Brian Strong's gadget on the quarter-deck.
Mentally, he tags you as a liar, and he begins to try to dig in to see how your gadget really works.
He rang and rang and rang, on the cut-off line with his gadget hooked in to call July the twelfth.
They knew about the possibilities of the small gadgets, brought down in production to the size of a pack of cigarettes.
When challenged as to its cause, "I cannot tell a lie," he replied calmly; "I did it with my little gadget."
I listened to him and looked at his gadget without giving any more indication than necessary of what I really thought.
Others joined them, armed with shotguns, pistols, and a rifle or two, but not with King Hector's paralysis gadget.
She swung the gadget out into the room, set it for a dye removal operation and sat down beneath it.
He manipulated the little visor-cleaning gadget, trying to poke his face forward to brush the frustration tears from his eyes.
Every duty orbit, fifty scientists come with permission from the Commandant to hang some automatic research gadget on the hull.
A hydraulic system inside the suit keeps a compressor running in this gadget on our backs, as long as we're moving about.
In short, if he turned on his gadget, gravity reversed itself for certain elements, and they went away in a hurry.
"If it hadn't been that the gadget was smashed we might have gone on bombing till the end of the war."
Every member of the human race would become richer as a result of the gadget now attached to Lon Simpson's tractor.
"That makes two doors to knock open, an' I bet your boys have some little gadget around that will do that."
I was just warning him that killing you and taking the gadget wouldn't do any good, that we've covered you.
That thumb-sized gadget delivered the power of a hundred storage batteries and was the answer to a thousand engineering problems.
Eight paper clips later I was convinced that whatever else it might be, the gadget was no potential murder weapon.
The most I can do, for now at least, is just give you a small peek at a few of our experimental gadgets.
Artie looked at the gadget, sitting and whistling on the floor of the lab, then turned a bleak-but-still-hopeful glance my way.
Hook busied himself with the pack-saddle, fixing gadgets here and knocking bits off there, until he had it to his satisfaction.
These last are after satisfying the two chief desires of primitive man by the very latest gadgets in scientific legislation.
He took two volumes from a high shelf and from the recess snatched the two gadgets with the pistol grips.
"At any rate, the gadget can store power and plenty of it, and it can put it out the same way."
"Yeah," he said to the Chief, "how would you like to explain a gadget that proved ants have more brains than you have?"
He was young with straight brown hair that kept falling over his forehead as he leaned forward to examine this or that gadget.
They had a gadget there that could not only spot, but track down, any use of atomic energy in the region.
In the old days, one great danger came from the big, heavy gadget called a link-and-pin that joined the cars together.
He put his gadget carefully away and combed his hair and ate some cold food around the house and drove over to see Rosie.
It is a peculiar gadget that looks like a bunch of cowboy spurs hooked up with pieces of tin can and some old plates.
Well, they're red rags to me, all these gadgets out of the half-baked mess they've stirred up by spying on our insides.
By watching the tracer with electronic gadgets, they can tell whether the food is a muscle builder, a bone builder, or what.
Every once in a while he pokes a gadget down into the grain and brings up a sample from various parts of the car.
All Barton did was send in a report in case an alarm went off indicating something was wrong with some gadget or other.
A sand-glass or a water-clock can only tell time so close and no closer, and those mechanical gadgets they've built are worse yet.
We only have a week to do it in, but we've got some combat tactics to show them on the training gadget in the Shed.
"We can get anything we want in the whole library if I understand the operation of this gadget the way I think I do."
If Porter tries to buck the Government, we've got a hell of a story if his gadget works the way he says it does.
The processes they went through with their strange mechanical and electrical gadgets, the end results they achieved, were a mystery to Calvin.
And in his own age, hidden among all the ads for quack remedies and miraculous gadgets, there were a few ads that were genuine.
Some of his robed geese came here once, and they did try to ruin my gadgets, but they couldn't open or break into the cabinet.
There was a short, low, buzzing sound as the gadget did its job and Nelson glanced around nervously, in fear it had been heard.
To be extra sure, we leave the gadgets he's got made and working back here, where he can't get to 'em and spoil 'em.
For a short time they turned out a wonderful assortment of new gadgets and new machines, but slowly their industry ground to a stop.
I would need to examine the machine, but in theory any gadget that fits over the head could be adapted for proper placement of electrodes.
And we've certainly found no evidence on Trellis of any civilization at all, much less one so advanced that it could dream up gadgets like that.
I found a score of gadgets in the lab, none of them finished and none of them built for any functional purpose that I could discover.
They thought the Murderer was crazy when he said he'd rather be eaten by a Great White Shark than smashed by some miserable explosive gadget.
When a large enough segment of the population wants a certain thing done, these little gadgets set up an active field that touches all the others.
He swore at it out of habit until he got out of bed, and then he realized that his gadget was hooked in and Central was cut off.
The gadget fell into white crystalline powder in Mooney's hand and the case itself became a rectangular shape traced in white powder ridges on the rug.
The top of a huge desk of purely functional design was littered with gadgets, and behind it sat a bald, pink-faced man, wearing a pleasant expression.
The new gadget is adopted unanimously by the inventor himself, but he has a tremendous task in making the rest of the squadron see its merits.
Although many physicians continued to use the traditional instruments that had been used for centuries, many others turned eagerly to the latest gadget on the market.
The blaster he concealed under the jacket, and he kept a few other Hundredth Century gadgets; these he would hide somewhere closer to his center of operations.
He supposed it was some sort of tiny gadget that could be shot to stick onto a moving car, and broadcast a signal that could be read and followed.
These creatures could never have invented the telephone, any more than the Vegans did: and they'd have had the same difficulty with gadgets such as the telegraph.
Today he boasts of his remote-control composing machines, his presses which come close to eliminating make-ready altogether, and his ink supplier's new gadget which matches colors scientifically.
We would coast along for two months before nearing Mars, and play with the gadgets we had brought along for taking all sorts of measurements in outer space.
Even if it were, this gadget is designed to do something that may or may not be illegal, which would make it hazardous to attempt to patent it, I should think.
I don't have an exact way of knowing since there aren't gadgets and dials in my mind, but it seems to me I can support a lot more of my weight.
In my confusion, I forgot which of the various gadgets was which, and it was by a process of wild experimentation that I finally got the car to back up.
There was nothing new in the idea of inventing a gadget to cheat the red-and-black wheels, of course; the local cops turn up a dozen a day here in the city.