Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burglar...
...became a legend - like Jesse James, John Brown, the Boston Burglar, and at present in the Kentucky Mountains, Floyd Collins (TIME, June 27). His brother became a broker...
...police placards to crooks. Fresh reason for the statement was announced by John E. Seebold of Rochester, N. Y. Aided by General Electric Co. experts, Mr. Seebold had perfected a detective camera for installation in rooms likely to attract burglars. As soon as the burglar (or any moving person or object) passes between a light sensitive fixture at one end of the room and a light at the other, the camera quietly takes any number of photographs (up to 160) of all that is occurring in front of it. Even tampering with the light by which the camera "sees...
...treasures of the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan bristle with electric burglar alarms, glass cages, crime-proof locks, watchmen. So elaborate are the precautions taken that vandalism has been deemed impossible...
...best telephone service that the world affords-and constantly bettering that-that they have no time to play the roles of alarm clocks, chronometers, et cetera, to the public. Telephone companies could undertake to deliver the milk, take the children to school, lock up the house, and act as burglar alarms. On the other hand, why not let telephone people keep at their development of communication-telephone, telephoto, television, and what next? H. B. MclNTYRE Division Engineer New England Tel. & Tel. Co. Providence, R. I. Strawberry Rash