Word: meters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feed the traditional appetite of U. S. science for neat experiments and clever machines (see p. 50). There was a burglar alarm which fills a room with ultrashort radio waves, so that a person stepping into the room interrupts the waves and actuates the signal. There was a photoelectric meter which determines the Vitamin D content of a cod-liver oil sample by passing a light beam through...
Although the meter contains a new type of photoelectric cell, of pure magnesium enclosed in corex glass, ultraviolet recorder: themselves are not especially new. But Professors Huxford & Cashman have started right out to get geographic comparisons. They find, for example, that Iowa and Nebraska are richer in sunburning sunlight than the Chicago region, that the uplands of South Dakota are richer still. They indicate their willingness to put their heads in a lion's mouth of uproarious dispute by comparing the healthfulness of Florida's sunshine with California...
...Yale faculty announced completion of an electric machine which does very much what Abrams claimed for his condemned Oscilloclast. Professor Harold Saxton Burr, upright Yale neuroanatomist, learned son of a professor in the Y. M. C. A. at Springfield, Mass, calls the Yale machine "a vacuum tube microvolt-meter for the measurement of bioelectric phenomena." In the current Yale Journal of Biology & Medicine he and his colleagues give precise instructions for building the diagnostic machine and the principles on which it operates, something which Albert Abrams never provided for his device...
...psychogalvanometer is more comfortable than the polygraph, whose subject has a sphygmomanometer (blood pressure meter) strapped with oppressive tightness on his arm. Neither machine will work on madmen...
There is still a chance, however, that Cornell will be spared these fatal points, for if Venzke does not have to run a trial in the morning, he will win the 800-meter also for Pennsylvania...