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Word: buzzers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...devised for use in the Business School Fatigue Laboratories and in similar institutions. The small amount of current produced by each beat of the heart is picked up by two electrodes fastened to the patient's chest. The electric impulse is transmitted to an amplifier, which enables a buzzer or a tape recorder to be used in connection with the apparatus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Neon Tubes Glow With Strange Light in Cruft Laboratory Experiments--Naval Men Study Signalling and Foghorns | 4/26/1929 | See Source »

...buzzer buzzes. Up jumps the Job-Seeker. No. 1 Secretary goes to investigate. If all is well, he opens another white door for the Job-Seeker to pass, through a short passage, into a large green oval room with three bay windows at one end, a marble fireplace (with fire) at the other. At a flat-topped mahogany desk sits the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Description | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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