A radio-like device which locates, immediately and without guesswork, bullets, shrapnel, and metal fragments lodged in a human body, is being produced in quantity in America and will be used in hospitals and sent with American soldiers all over the world. The device eliminates the surgical probing that has always been the horror of military operating ’stations. It was invented by Mr Sam Berman, an employee of the New York City subway system. The original purpose was to locate steel splinters in workmen’s arms. Mr Berman was demonstrating it in Hawaii when Japanese bombers swept over in the surprise attack of December 7. The raid interrupted his lecture, and he . rushed to (he hospital, where the instrument saved many lives. Such of the cable news on this page as Is so headed has appeared in “The Times,”, and Is cabled to Australia and New Zealand by special permission. It should be understood that the opinions are not those of “The Times” unless expressly stated to be so.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 October 1942, Page 3
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