AMERICAN’S INVENTION.
FREAKISH CLAIMS. NEW YORK, Jan. 24. Dr. William Mars ton, inventor of the “lie detector,’-’ to-day demonstrated before the American Institute a “love detector,” his latest invention, which is on the market at 500 dollars. It is guaranteed to show whether the husband is in love with his wife and if not why not, also whether the subject- married for love or money and whether the love, if any, is based on higher emotion or plain sex. An instrument called a pneumograph is clamped round the chest and another called a spygnomanometer is clamped round the right leg. These instruments record changes in blood pressure and breathing. Dr. Mercrn-n has a series of questions, the reactions to which provide evidence for his conclusions.
Dr. Marston explained that as women are less inhibited and more emotional than men the machine works better on them. It is so delicate that when tried on Mr Douglas Corrigan, the famous aviator, the instruments nearly broke. “My machine will furnish a scientific test for marital relations,” said Dr. Marston. “It ought to lower the divorce rate and, if tried before marriage, it will prevent mistakes.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 49, 26 January 1939, Page 9
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