Doctor Who? This is the question that millions, billions of galaxies are asked in the vast universe, and at the same time we are simple inhabitants of the third planet from the sun.
A blue telephone box, an eccentric accessory and, of course, a sound screwdriver - this is why you can always recognize the mysterious stranger from Gallifrey - who may have disappeared from time and space of the planet of the Time Lords.
Riddle
The creators of the legendary series worked hard in this regard. Perhaps even they do not know who the hero of this amazing, amazing story is, which cannot have an end, nor can there be an end to time itself. For more than fifty years, the global audience has been enthusiastically watching the adventures of an eccentric with a booth, practically not knowing anything about him. Nevertheless, the discussion in this article is not about the hero, but about his adaptation - a sonic screwdriver.
Where does it come from?
Without it, he does not leave the house, and more specifically - from the telephone box. What is this tool? How does it work and how does it turn out in the hands of the Doctor? Let's try to find out.
A sonic screwdriver seems to be part of the hero himself, however it is more correct to call it a component of his spaceship - TARDIS. Each regeneration of the protagonist is accompanied by a change in the interface of the blue telephone box and, accordingly, a screwdriver.
A new version of the multifunctional device materializes in a special section of the TARDIS dashboard at the end of the update process. So it’s simple and convenient, like everything in the universe of this series.
Only weapon
Fans of "Doctor Who" are well aware that this hero of the series is particularly friendly and eager to save everyone. That is why, even entering into battle, he does not resort to weapons until the very extreme.
All that he has is TARDIS, a huge number of obscure devices and, of course, a sonic screwdriver, without which it is difficult to imagine. It is she who becomes his faithful assistant in all the alterations where the Doctor and his companions so eagerly end up.
Basic properties
Perhaps no fan of the series will be able to accurately answer the question of what makes a sonic screwdriver - whether it is a remote control, or a dangerous weapon, or simply an item from Samodelkin’s box. Sometimes it seems that this tool can do almost everything: scan objects and open locks, strengthen your voice and repair equipment, control TARDIS and simply surprise people.
The Doctor always has some strange thing that confuses everyone around, except, perhaps, the time traveler himself. It can be a colorful scarf, red “Converse” sneakers, which are incompatible with anything, or a strange hairstyle. For example, 11 Doctor Who adored a bow tie, and not a single force in the universe could force him to change his favorite accessory.
These addictions to strange clothes change with each regeneration, but the presence of a screwdriver is unchanged.
Screwdriver evolution
Over the years of the existence of the series, a sound screwdriver (the principle of its work) managed to change quite significantly. The first devices could not boast of features that far exceeded the most common similar tool. Gradually, the possibilities became more and more, until the sound screwdriver became the same as we used to see it.
It changed in size and shape, color scheme, power, wave level, set of characteristics, but always remained with the Doctor.
Each such device was developed especially carefully by the creators of the series, because a sound screwdriver is part of the hero himself, which means that he must determine it and correspond to it in everything.
Wonderful properties
11 Doctor Who in one of the series gave an exhaustive explanation of the principle of operation of a sound screwdriver: the device responds to thought processes and executes the appropriate commands through the use of sound waves.
With the help of this miracle of technology, heroes easily make adjustments to the software, analyze substances, scan rooms, not to mention the fact that a sound screwdriver can easily cope with locks if they are not made of wood.
It is noteworthy that this amazing device is not only listening to its owner. A sonic screwdriver also submits to his lovely companions, being in their hands.
It is impossible not to mention one more feature of the Gallifrey gadget, which you can really envy. How many times have your tools or appliances broken? In the best case, they could be repaired, and in the worst, they could say goodbye and take them to a landfill. So, the Doctor does not have such problems. Finally breaking down, the screwdriver is restored, and with an additional set of functions that are found in the most unforeseen circumstances.
In fairness, it should be said that a sound screwdriver is only the embodiment of a completely scientific concept. Vibrations of this type have long been used in the field of production and medicine.
So not everything in this series is fiction: Doctor Who himself, a sonic screwdriver and his TARDIS. Who knows, maybe somewhere in the vast expanses of space, a blue telephone box is now landing on another planet.