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Working with some unusual accessories (including canary birds, guppies and nervous women), Inventor S. Young White is digging into a complex study called ultrasonics.* Last week, in Audio Engineering, Inventor White described one of his gadgets: a sound-maker no bigger than a milk bottle. The White siren can generate: 1) "silent" sounds powerful enough to set paper afire; 2) audible sounds so loud that they knock strong men (including Mr. White) silly for five minutes...
Paralyzing Racket. Though intended primarily for ultrasonics, Inventor White's siren can also produce ordinary, audible sounds. Low in pitch, their power is still enormous. To show what they can do, White adjusts the wheel's speed so that it will generate 800-cycle sound waves -just below the top of a soprano's range...
Nervous Guppies. Neighbors being what they are, the White siren is worked most of the time in the ultrasonic range. The average man cannot hear sounds above 14,000 cycles. Women are receptive to slightly higher pitches. White cites one exceptional woman, "a nervous, Park Avenue type," who can hear sounds in the neighborhood of 24,000 cycles. So can canaries. If annoyed with ultrasonic heckling, canaries turn their heads to an angle of least annoyance...
Simmons women once more sent out their siren song for all available males yesterday with the announcement of a dance at 305 Brookline Avenue tomorrow night at 8 o'clock...
...siren which means foul in horse racing, even L'Humanite's editors seemed to think the Russian sweep had been rather too much of a good thing. But in their shoddy, Left-Bank hotel, the Russian ladies explained it: "The French women do not plan. We won because we work and plan...