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| Squeaker | ||
| Used to search out radium in asteroids. |
| “I think we’d better look for
a ‘squeaker’. Next time they might get
you, Digger.”
They returned to the room of the spaceships, seeking one of the small, portable radio-amplifiers used for searching out radium. It was known as a “squeaker” because of the constant din it made while in use; the noise would cease only when radium was within a hundred feet of the mechanism. He found one after searching a few of the smaller ships. With the portable radio strapped to his back, power switched on, he start- ed again down the main tunnel. The globes set up their seductive rhythms as before, but he could not hear them above the discord of his squeaker. |
| Technovelgy from Beast of Space,
by F.E. Hardart. Published by Comet in 1941 Additional resources -
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