Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...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 it would be ideal...
Louis Rose, 66, tiny, tough-talking director of Circulation ($110,000 a year), is an ex-newsboy, disciple and brother-in-law of the late Max Annenberg. He is the only executive who can stop the presses (with a buzzer that blows a siren in the press room). "Louie" Rose cruises his newsstands at night in a new, $5,000 Packard. His boss bought it, found the roof too low for the high McCormick head, told Rose: "If you like it I'll give it to you." Rose liked...
...After years of trying to discourage motorists who chase their trucks. Tipton (Iowa) firemen got even. A fire engine with siren screaming led 100 hot-eyed drivers into the Cedar County fair grounds, kept them circling the track until it was packed hard enough for some midget automobile races the department had sponsored...
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...