"DRUNKOMETER" FOR DRIVERS.
A device for determining the amount of alcoliol in a person's breath was exhibited at the recent National Safety Congress in Kansas City. It was designed to furnish a scientific test for f>olice officers to determine whether drivers of automobiles had been drinking and whether they had partaken sufficient alcohol to enable them to be classified as drunk. The •device, called a "drunkometer," was invented by T>r. R. N. Harger. professor of biological chemistry and toxicology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. The person to be tested blows his orcath into a rubber balloon which holds a nnit quantity of the exhaled air. The air is then switched through a chemical detector which gives a colour reaction that varies with the amount of alcohol vapour in the breath.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 282, 27 November 1937, Page 8
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132"DRUNKOMETER" FOR DRIVERS. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 282, 27 November 1937, Page 8
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