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Dishwashers, cake mixers, complicated fruit juice extractors, and similar gadgets are all excellent, but they are not essential.
The time elapsed between transmission and reception is computed by the gadget in feet, giving an accurate height reading.
We used a gadget providing for automatic destruction of the larger meteors in order to make the planet safe enough to occupy.
"Matter of fact, I was thinking about that directional finder gadget," the English youth replied as he stared at the radio.
Then he ran his eyes and hands on the instrument board and gadgets to familiarize himself quickly with their various functions.
The closest scrutiny revealed no trace of "gadgets" or of any artifice that had enabled him to thus lift the filled bowl.
After letting the temperatures of the core and the gadget equalize, the core fit perfectly to the great relief of all present.
She set aside some squeeze-packs and little gadgets and elastic items right away, but she didn't take any of the clothes.
"I want to play around with one of those gliders," Freddy said, and let his gaze roam over the assortment of electrical gadgets.
Chairs ringed the desk on which lay various trophies and gadgets such as might have decorated the room of any flight lieutenant.
After assembly, the plutonium core was transported to Trinity Site to be inserted into the thing or gadget as the atomic device was called.
You see, Mama remembered some of my earlier gadgets, one of which had blown up all over her kitchen stove, cabinet, walls and floor.
In almost every theater, this policy succeeded, and a wide variety of leaflet bombs, leaflet dispensers, and other leaflet-circulating gadgets was developed.
One could only guess at the machines, the gadgets, the artistry already decayed and blown away to mix forever with the sand.
There were displays of kitchen gadgets, appliances, and other heavy machinery for the home; recorded lectures on stock management and market control.
It should have that is, if Toffee, in her haste, hadn't plumped against the wall and unknowingly pressed the button of the gadget.
The mind-reading gadget had been a device created in her own subconscious, a psychological trick to by-pass the dream that had held her imprisoned.
The bearers stopped while the man took down a gadget that looked like a chessboard with buttons and pushed down half a dozen of them.
He is pitched into a new type twice the size of the old one, with three times as many gadgets, an unexplored temperament and unknown leanings.
It can be read as an indication that the American love of the gadget, the American quest for a novelty, can be turned to the arena of the soul.
If we open it before we test the whole thing, then Forsythe would say we tampered with the gadget, and naturally it wouldn't perform as he claimed.
He tilted it this way and that, frowned, consulted a small square sparkly thing that came from another part of the case, tilted the round gadget again.
Plants differ from other objects or things or "gadgets" and considerable experience will be necessary on the part of the administration before the law will be made workable.
They devoted almost all their time, except that little for bringing up firewood and trapping game, to fiddling with that gadget they called a warp motor.
Her efficiency, her gadgets and the tremendous power that had existed for so long at her fingertips, were disintegrating, and she appeared to be disintegrating with them.
Let's get it now while there is a lull in business, and you can take the pump and pipe and other gadgets right back with you in the truck.
Lifeboats were crammed with supplies; ropes in coils, ropes in flakes, canvas in bolts, innumerable gadgets connected with science, art and the human stomach filled the planking.
You know, that being stuck with a sky-bound gadget that you can't turn off is the nastiest combination of feeling stupid, helpless, comical, silly and scared I've hit yet.
Neither guns, nor the powder which sent the big shells on their errand, nor the calculations of the gunners, nor their adjustment of the gadgets, had any error.
Let me take the lifeboat, and stock it with a few goodies from the library, and some of those marbles from the storeroom, and a couple of the smaller mechanical gadgets.
Ginny, according to custom, had been assiduously showered by her friends with every gadget and garment that any manufacturer, domestic or foreign, had ever rendered in pink and/or blue.
I've never liked cheap, showy gadgets, performing some small function that a person might do as well, and as easily, and with less affectation, with his own head and hands.
What notion, then, of "gadget" and "stunt" is gained by the young subaltern of today as he joins his regiment and shakes down to the fundamental facts of life and death?
It should certainly be possible to fool a simple electronic gadget, to heighten activity in all centers to such an extent that the added effort of his creative cells could not be spotted.
You'd think they'd equip even pleasure craft with a few of these scientific gadgets you hear about, instead of taking up room with a lot of old-fashioned fuel tanks and jets that nobody needs.
Think what skillful devotion this simple fact reveals, what minute attention day in day out for months and years, so that in the hour of need no mechanical gadget may fail of its duty.
I snap off the gadget and head for my rocket jeep, and fifteen seconds later I am walking into the factory where a hundred citizens are already at work on the inner spaceship.
By now Peter Stone was not overly surprised to see silver moving ways disappearing into the Station's maw, nor, once inside, to feel breezes that blew silently from silver gadgets like jet engines.
If the gadgets didn't work the way Porter expected them to, Porter would fuss and fidget with them until he got tired of them, then he would junk them and try something else.
Twice they were halted by locked doors, but only momentarily, for Kurt had a tiny gadget, concealed in the palm of his hand, which had only to be held over a latch to open a recalcitrant door.
Early the next morning while Bill was servicing my car for the trip ahead, with some tactful mention of handy gadgets he had for sale, we noticed Blackie coming with a man who ran largely to whiskers.
The man who might invent some new and useful gadget for an automobile or other machinery was protected under the patent law, if he availed himself of it, but the man who developed a beautiful flower, a fine apple or a fine nut was wholly without protection.
For a couple of hours they were put through paces, all of them; sometimes one man would be working a gadget while all the scientists and humans watched him, at other periods they would each be hard at work doing something the result of which they had no conception of.