According to the Food And Drug Administration ( FDA ), `` Doctor '' Ghadiali, Dr. Albert Abrams and his clique, and Dr. Wilhelm Reich -- to name three notorious device quacks -- succeeded, respectively, in distributing 10,000, 5000, and 2000 fake health machines.

Le Guin states that she derived the name from " answerable ," as the device would allow its users to receive answers to their messages in a reasonable amount of time, even over interstellar distances.

In the years following the Revolution the poetic device " Columbia " was used as a symbol of both Columbus and America, King's College of New York changed its name in 1792 to Columbia, and the new capitol in Washington was subtitled District of Columbia.

Although positively charged cations always move towards the cathode ( hence their name ) and negatively charged anions move away from it, cathode polarity depends on the device type, and can even vary according to the operating mode.

Nevertheless, in practice, " micron " remains a widely used term in preference to " micrometre " in many English-speaking countries, and in American English the use of " micron " helps differentiate the unit from the micrometer, a measuring device, because the unit's name in mainstream American spelling is a homograph of the device's name.

In telecommunications, RS-232 is the traditional name for a series of standards for serial binary single-ended data and control signals connecting between a < span title =" Usually a controlling terminal or a computer "> DTE </ span > ( Data Terminal Equipment ) and a < span title =" Usually a modem or target device "> DCE </ span > ( Data Circuit-terminating Equipment ).

These tracks have come to be known as " restrictor plate tracks ", a name that is derived from the " restrictor plate ," device that was designed to limit top speeds to approximately on such tracks.

Any member of the society may apply to register a name and device for their persona, which are checked by the heralds for uniqueness and period authenticity, before being blazoned and recorded in the society's Armorial.

In many computing contexts, " TTY " has become the name for any text terminal, such as an external console device, a user dialing in to the system on a modem on a serial port device, a printing or graphical computer terminal on a computer's serial port or the RS-232 port on a USB-to-RS-232 converter attached to a computer's USB port, or even a terminal emulator application in the window system using a pseudo terminal device.

Le Guin's concept has been borrowed explicitly by several other well-known authors, even to the extent of using the name of the communication device ( the " ansible ").

Subpoenas issued to Internet Service Providers were expanded to include not only " the name, address, local and long distance telephone toll billing records, telephone number or other subscriber number or identity, and length of service of a subscriber " but also session times and durations, types of services used, communication device address information ( e. g. IP addresses ), payment method and bank account and credit card numbers.

The formidable appearance of the device inspired its name, The Sword of Damocles.

In March 1889, a second caveat was filed, in which the proposed motion picture device was given a name, the Kinetoscope.

* Widget ( economics ), a placeholder name for a manufactured device

Originally marketed as the " Soundabout " in the U. S., the " Stowaway " in the U. K., and the " Freestyle " in Sweden, Sony soon had the new name " Walkman " embossed into the metal tape cover of the device.

On August 6, 1945, a uranium gun-type device ( code name " Little Boy ") was detonated over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

Three days later, on August 9, a plutonium implosion-type device ( code name " Fat Man ") was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan.

A radial magnetic field of a hundred gauss ( about 100 – 300 G, 0. 01 – 0. 03 T ) is used to confine the electrons, where the combination of the radial magnetic field and axial electric field cause the electrons to drift azimuthally, forming the Hall current from which the device gets its name.

A star coupler was also the name of a device sold by Digital Equipment Corporation ( now part of Hewlett-Packard ) of Maynard, Massachusetts.

( No wonder that the usual name for the device in German is Messschraube, literally " measuring screw ".

It was Foucault who gave the device its modern name, in an experiment to see ( Greek skopeein, to see ) the Earth's rotation ( Greek gyros, circle or rotation ), which was visible in the 8 to 10 minutes before friction slowed the spinning rotor.

Some of the children of the family could not pronounce this name and called her Paula, a soubriquet Carl liked so much she has been Paula ever since.

The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;

According to The Chicago Tribune News Service, State Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk of California has devised a series of questions which the joiner might well ask about any organization seeking his money and his name: 1.

After the Griffin-Byrd political troup has completed the circuit in November in the name of a Pre-Legislative Forum, this is going to be the most politically oriented Legislature in history.

and ( 2 ) such other special funds as may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be required each to be a claims fund to be known by the name of the foreign government which has entered into a settlement agreement with the Government of the United States as described in subsection ( A ) of Section 4 of this Title.

By making inroads in the name of law enforcement into the protection which Congress has afforded to the marriage relationship, the Court today continues in the path charted by the recent decision in Wyatt v. United States, 362 U.S. 525, where the Court held that, under the circumstances of that case, a wife could be compelled to testify against her husband over her objection.

The name `` alkali bee '' indicates that one has to look for them in rather inhospitable places.

The name thyroid-stimulating hormone ( TSH ) has been given to a substance found in the anterior pituitary gland of all species of animal so tested for its presence.

Revenue Ruling 54-17 provides that if the corporation against which a tax was assessed has since been liquidated by merger with a successor corporation, a claim for refund should be filed by the successor in the name and on behalf of the corporation which paid the tax, followed by the name of the successor corporation.

it is only after he has involved her emotions in his scheme that he uses her given name, placing himself by implication in the position of a solicitous father.

She teamed up with another beauty, whose name has been lost to history, and commenced with some fiddling that would have made Nero envious.

`` There had been a threesome at the party in the suite's bedroom: Miss Harrington ( this was Diane's choice for a Roman name ), another woman who has figured in other very interesting events and one of your well-known American actors.

So, after the sitting has been held, several readings at one time are mailed, and the distant sitter ( whose name or whose communicator's name was given to the medium ) must mark each little item as Correct ( Hit ), Incorrect ( Miss ), Doubtful, or Especially Significant ( applying to him and, he feels, not to anyone else ).

Undoubtedly none of the residents realize the influence their town has had on American military history, or the deeds of valor that have been done in its name.

Boun My -- the name means one who has a boun, a celebration, and is therefore lucky -- was born in Savannakhet, the Border of Paradise.

It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.

This method was used until the Los Angeles Times announced the winners before the ceremony began ; as a result, the Academy has used a sealed envelope to reveal the name of the winners since 1941.

Another cue is having the same family name, especially if rare, and this has been found to increase helping behavior.

The name of Apollo's mother Leto has Lydian origin, and she was worshipped on the coasts of Asia Minor.

The name is Medieval Latin for he has declared upon oath.

Although the Indian and Greek concepts of the atom were based purely on philosophy, modern science has retained the name coined by Democritus.

Ammonius asks Plutarch what he, being a Boeotian, has to say for Cadmus, the Phoenician who reputedly settled in Thebes and introduced the alphabet to Greece, placing alpha first because it is the Phoenician name for ox — which, unlike Hesiod, the Phoenicians considered not the second or third, but the first of all necessities.