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Died. Rev. Walter Gerard Summers, S. J., 49, head of Fordham University's department of psychology; of coronary thrombosis; in The Bronx. Father Summers invented a lie detector (psychogal-vanometer), which registers the variation in the minute electrical currents coursing through the body, claimed 100% accuracy for it. Last March, in Queens County Court, N. Y., his lie detector was the first to be accepted as a creditable witness in a New York criminal court...
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...Earl were picked up in Oakland, Calif, in Bassett's car. The fragmentary corpse was never found though much excavation was done about Mrs. Smith's premises. The trial of Mrs. Smith was the first in the U. S. in which the prosecution used the lie-detector and "truth serum." Mrs. Smith and Earl, who were rather simple people, were so terrified by science that they confessed enthusiastically to everything. But the public indignantly protested the newfangled lie-detector. The defense got an injunction, mother and son were finally sentenced only for stealing Bassett's car, which...
Last week Dr. Langmuir talked about stearic acid, a substance found in animal fat, which makes a monomolecular film one ten-millionth of an inch thick. This turned out to be an extremely sensitive detector for atoms of metal in water. If the metal atoms are jostled around by stirring the water, they will soon strike the underside of the film, adhere to it. The film is skimmed from the water, allowed to contract. If it contains no metal, when viewed by polarized light it will give a double refraction effect in handsome colors. But if there were only...
...like him well enough." They then strolled down the boardwalk to pledge loud co-operation in cocktails. Roared Miss Slye, 57, wagging a finger: "Clarence Cook Little, you're a big handsome numskull." Roared Dr. Little, 48: "You're not a geneticist, Maude Slye." Cancer Detector- Dr. Walter Schiller of the University of Vienna, offered a simple new way of determining whether or not a woman has cancer of the cervix...