Word: splices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...associates, particularly those who are interested in his field, he bubbles with enthusiasm and information. He too has a portfolio of international honors given for his studies of nerve conduction. His most delicate work has been to separate the microscopic, floss-like fibres which constitute a nerve and splice them into a highly sensitive telegraph set. Whenever such nerves carry messages to (or from) the brain by means of very weak electrical impulses, amplifying tubes in Professor Adrian's device magnify those impulses until he can record them on a phonograph disk or send them sounding from a loud...