Another Remarkable Invention.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 20, 18 October 1907, Page 5

Another Remarkable Invention.

A RECORD OF SECRET THOUGHTS.' Professor Munsterberg, of Harvard, has in- ! vented'a romarkablo appliance, yhicli 'lie claims will enable' all the emotions of a ! subject to be recorded, and all tlio secrets of bis' '"heart revealed. _ 1 According to the ,Ne\v York correspondent, of the "Liverpool Daily Post," Dr. lilunsterberg, who fills the Chair of' Psychology at the University, describes his. invention as a truthcompelling apparatus. The contrivance consists of three, separate machines: ail automantograph, a pneumograph, and a sphygomogruph. The first is attached to tho anil,, and makes .1 record with pencil on paper.! These involuntary writings arc expressions of. the emotions convoyed through the arni.'.Tho: pneumograph, which is a more dclicatjo instrument still, takes a record of the breathing. Every variation from normal breathing due to omotional suggestion is marked by the machine. Each expiration in a word writes its own history. The third machino;; sphygomograph, is fixed to the wrist to' observe tho pulse heats. It takes another re l cord of tho emotions of the heart. "'■' A scientist who has scon the machines calls them "cure liars," bccauso by them can be daily recorded all secret thoughts,, mental.re-, sorvr.tions, and prevarications. _ '''' ' Tho professor has asked permission to, try his invention 011 Harry. Orchard, the informer in the Boise murder trial, who told a sensational story of nntrdchi and ofher" outrages arranged by the Miners' Society.; Tlio professor wishes to lix his machines on Orchard, and then get him to re-tell his tale./