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...story came to the Science Editor's attention via advance tear sheets of a new monthly technical magazine called Audio Engineering. Carefully checked with its author, Inventor S. (for Sidney) Young White, the story described the gadget, told what it could do, and suggested some aspects of its possible ultrasonic future-such as killing bacteria, breaking up suspensions of solid particles, precipitating smoke and dust...
...morning after TIME hit the newsstands the Science Department's telephone got busy with readers wanting to know more about the ultrasonic siren and its inventor. The Public Library called to say that they were getting inquiries for Audio Engineering but couldn't locate it on any of their lists. The president of Ultrasonic Corp. turned up in person to get more information direct from us. He had read the story on the night train from Boston and had stopped by our office on arrival...
...next few weeks this initial reaction grew to startling proportions for Inventor White, Audio Engineering and TIME. The radio and sound recording fields were heard from almost en masse. Atomic scientists conveyed their interest, as did numerous industrialists, colleges and universities, foreign scientists, etc. Some wanted to know how to manufacture the ultrasonic siren; others asked whether it could be devoted to such uses as sterilizing insect eggs in flour, the homogenization of chocolate for hand-dipped candies. An invalid wondered whether the instrument would pulverize his kidney stones without damaging him. The Long Island Duck Farmers Association thought...
...Forest, of American Television Inc., wrote in to ask whether Inventor White had applied his siren to remedying afflictions like tinnitis (ringing in the ears), which has plagued the "father of radio" for years...
Very cleverly disguised in the June 9 issue of TIME was the story of "handsome Mel Johnson, inventor of the Johnson semiautomatic rifle and machine gun," whose latest contribution to the peace of the world is a "toy" gun which shoots pellets...