AN INVENTION
BY U.S.A. DOCTOR. / (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright). NEW YORK, January 24. Doctor William Marston, the “lie detector” inventor, to-day demonstrated before the American Institute, a “love detector,” his latest invention, which he , has placed on the market at 500 dollars. It is guaranteed to show whether a husband is in love with his wife, if not why not, whether the subject married for love or for money, also whether his love, if any, is based on higher emotion or on.plain sex.
An instrument called a pneumograph is clamped round the chest. Another instrument, called a sphygmomanometer, is clamped round the right leg. These instruments record changes in blood pressure and breatli-
Dr. Marston has a series of questions, the reactions to which provide evidence for his conclusions. Dr. Marston explained that, as women are less inhibited and are more emotional than men, the machine works better on them. It is so delicate that, >..when it was tried on Douglas Corrigan, the aviator nearly broke the instruments. Dr. Marston says: “My machine will furnish a scientific .. .test. for., marital relations. It ought to lower the divorce rate, and, tried before marriage, it will prevent mistakes.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1939, Page 5
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