Word: apparatuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Switchboard Movement. What Krieg cautiously proposes is a lengthy inquiry into the possibility of building substitute transmission stations, i.e., electrical apparatuses which would be worn, perhaps, on the head, through which controlled and meaningful signals could be sent electrically to the brain of a blinded man. A group of electrical contacts touching the surface of the subject's brain, says Dr. Krieg, might enable him to read. A pattern of such impulses coming through the electrodes of the apparatus might be controlled to appear as words, moving across the blind man's visual consciousness like the letters...
Next Tuesday, it will all be over. There'll be a burst of applause for the winner, in the Parker House lobby. The sound apparatus will be taken off the trucks and the city will quiet down for another two years...
...Unitarians, nevertheless, dispensed with his services. What happened to Field after that is uncertain. In 1948 ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers testified that Noel Field had once headed a Communist "apparatus" in the State Department. Last month Hungary's ex-Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk, who was himself executed last week (see FOREIGN NEWS), said Field was a U.S. intelligence agent who had helped blackmail him into becoming "a servant of American imperialism...
...When his apparatus is working right, Dr. Kreutzer claims that fish swim to their deaths as if bewitched. The Herr Doktor turns on the current; the fish point dutifully toward the electrode. When he makes the current sing its pied-piper song, the fish wiggle and waggle in time with the subtle pulses. Glassy-eyed and helpless, they swim toward the electrode which leads to the frying...
...more difficult process for the birds comes up when the apparatus is set so that a delay between two pecks is necessary for a meal pay-off. He eventually gets wise to this when he discovers that turning around between the first and second peck, or walking across the eage and back, buys him a free meal...