Word: chronograph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biologist Harvey and Banker Loomis are old collaborators. Two years ago they devised a chronograph to record the speed and variation of human heart beats over long periods. They have developed an ultra-rapid micro-cinema camera which photographs the "death" of cells when attacked by intense sound waves. In his Tuxedo Park laboratory Mr. Loomis has experimented for years with "super sound" waves, too rapid for the human ear to detect, which kill fish, paralyze mice, sterilize blood (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928). But electricity and physics are only a pastime with him. In 1920, with Landon K. Thome...