Word: kleine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Correspondent Fred Klein was the one who was repeatedly sprayed with perfume while working on a story on the French perfume industry. He wrote: "My friends refused to associate with me, claiming that I smelled like one of those gentlemen who parade the Champs-Elysees after dark." The correspondent who got strapped into a death chair (by a playful warden) was Serrell Hillman, in San Francisco. The warden made him promise the story would run in the magazine before releasing...
...sunny afternoon in Hoboken, and 71-year-old Brother Salesius Klein decided on a walk after lunch. His work in the U.S. was about over. As Brother-General of the Roman Catholic order of the Poor Brothers of St. Francis, he was at the end of a two-month tour of his order's schools and charities. In a few days he would be on the high seas, on his way back to Aachen, Germany...
...current issue of Radio-Electronics is a description of a French loud speaker that comes close to this ideal. It inventor, Paris-born Siegfried Klein, de cided that the vibrating parts of a loud speaker should be replaced by some device that would turn electrical signals directly into sound waves in the air. After many tries and failures, he developed his "lonophone," a complicated device whose basic principle is simple...
...work at full efficiency, the lonophone requires a large horn, but even the table model is a remarkable improvement on conventional loudspeakers. It is sensitive, Klein says, to sound waves up to 400,000 cycles per second. (The average human ear can hear only about 16,000 cycles, and the average home loudspeaker does not work well above...
...Klein already has contracts with leading European manufacturers of loudspeakers and electrical equipment. The lonophone also has another talent, which should intrigue the military: it can be used as a microphone sensitive both to ordinary sounds and to ultrasonic vibrations. This should make it useful in submarine warfare, where ultrasonic ranging leads the hunters to their prey...