Word: detectors
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...When her husband comes home, she decides after a brief period of reluctance to go to California. The mining man (John Boles) is the one who sees her off at the station. All this is competently enough put together but, if tested by an emotional seismograph like the "Lie Detector," its graph would be full of dead spots. Shot: Greta Nissen asking her patron to buy her an emerald bracelet...
...preview in Chicago, 27-year-old Inventor Leonarde Keeler tried out on two members of the audience his "Lie-Detector" which police have found handy for questioning recalcitrant suspects. The '"Lie-Detector" is a device which, by means of arm and chest bands, records on a paper chart changes in blood pressure and pulse action, presumably resulting from emotion. At last week's test, it worked so well when attached to two De Paul University students that Inventor Keeler said: "The results are . . . even more pronounced than in many cases in which suspects are being questioned in connection...
Likewise pleased was Universal's publicity department and Universal's General Sales Manager Phil Reisman, who saw in the "Lie-Detector" a mechanical means of forecasting the efficacy of mechanical entertainment. Said he: "Instead of the old hit or miss previews we can now know exactly the emotional effect of any film, can cut out the 'dead' spots, and generally improve the pictures distributed." A live spot in Frankenstein as revealed by the "Lie-Detector": one in which the ugly face of Frankenstein's dwarfish assistant pops up from behind a graveyard fence. Dead spots...
...Dayton Clarence Miller, had made 175,000 more readings of his interferometer at Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland. His results showed a definite ether drift, which he will expound in April at the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. In Germany, the other ether detector. Dr. Georg Joos, professor of theoretical physics at Jena University, reported that he had obtained a negative result, upheld Dr. Einstein...
...Detector. By a new X-ray photographic method called amniography, Dr. Thomas Orville Menees of Blodgett Memorial Hospital, Grand Rapids, Mich., has been able to detect the sex of an unborn child three months before birth. An injection of harmless strontium iodide, opaque to X-rays, makes it possible to identify the structure of the unborn child. Another important use of amniography: to determine cases where a Caesarian section is necessary for safe delivery...