Word: catting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pictures-Incorporated is Actress Gladys George in her starring rôle as the blonde, seductive cinemactress of Personal Appearance (TIME. Oct. 29), current Manhattan stage hit. In private life Miss George has a husband named Edward Fowler, a Springfield. Mass, paper manufacturer. She also has a tortoise-shell Persian cat named Mungkee...
...special cells have been isolated now, although how or why the current is generated still lies in the field of conjecture. A cat, wired to tap the current which results from the stimuli of sound waves, will convert the sound waves into current surges which can be amplified and either photographed or played over a loud-speaker...
...mechanism is a simple one. In the ear of the cat is thrust a silver wire with a damp thread on its end. Slipping past the eardrum, the thread drops into the "round window" of the cochlea. This makes one contact. The other is made by a silver plate at the base of the skull. The two wires are hooked to an amplifier and thence to a loud-speaker...
...With the cat in one sound-proof room and the loud speaker in the other, any word spoken to the eat will be reproduced in electrical impulses by the cat's ear and transmitted to the speaker. Not only will the resultant words be recognizable, but it is possible to recognize the voice of the person who spoke them...
That certain cells in the ear of a cat generate electricity has been proved in tests conducted at the Medical School by Dr. Hallowell Davis '13, assistant professor of Physiology. It has been known since 1930 that there was electricity generated in the bodies of most mammals, but until recently it was unknown which cells produced the current...