Word: detectors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England listeners with bootleg sets are caught and forced to pay their tax by an adroit ruse. Science has evolved no means of detecting a listening set, but Scotland Yard has evolved a van full of impressive looking gadgets. This vehicle rumbles about, stopping here & there at random. "Our detector indicates that perhaps you have a wireless," a courteous bobby tells an English householder who is paying no tax. "May we inspect your premises?" Premises are inspected until sooner or later a bootleg receiver is found, and Scotland Yard scores again with its purely psychological detector...
...liner drew close it steered slightly to port of the lightship and speed was reduced to 16 knots. The oscillograph detector was not used to find the distance, but the liner's position was computed by cross-bearings from shore radio stations. Few minutes before the crash, while the beacon indicated the lightship to be three degrees off the starboard bow, the signals were suddenly lost. The oscillograph detector went dead also. Then the lightship's fog whistle was heard. Every officer on the Olympic's bow agreed the sound was off the starboard bow. To play...
...legends represented Virgil as an humiliated lover, suspended in a basket from his mistress' window. This appeared, in varying forms, from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, everywhere with a local colour of its own. Scarcely less widespread was the story that Virgil had devised an ingenious lie detector, the bocca della verita, in the form of an animal's head which bit off the finger of anyone guilty of falsehood...
...Russell Sweetser Ferguson of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital got the clue for his teratoma detector from Dr. Bernhard Zondek, German Jew now without a job (TIME, June 5). Dr. Zondek and Dr. Selmar Aschheim, his colleague, found that the pituitary gland of women enlarges during pregnancy and produces two sex hormones, Prolan A and Prolan B. As soon as a woman begins to gestate a baby she begins to create those hormones, and they promptly appear in her urine...
Last year, two important French railways the Etat and the Nord, took the initiative of introducing from America to Europe, via their own networks, a Sperry Detector Car, a squat self-perambulating device, on which live comfortably its crew of American engineers...