“Love Detector” Will Bare Domestic Bliss

Northern Advocate, 26 January 1939, Page 8

“Love Detector” Will Bare Domestic Bliss

(Received 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 24. The inventor of the device known as the “lie detector,” Dr. William Marston, to-day demonstrated before the American Institute a “love detector,” his latest invention. He is placing this on the market at 500 dollars. The new device is guaranteed to show whether a husband is in love with his wife and, if not, why not. For Love or Money? Also, it is said to show whether the subject married for love or for money, whether his love, if any, is based on higher emotion or otherwise. The instrument, which is called a pn'eumograph, is clamped round the chest, and another, called a sphygmomanometer, is clamped round the right leg. These instruments record changes in blood pressure and breathing. Women Best Subjects.

Dr. Marston has a series of questions, the reaction to which provide evidence for his conclusion. He explains that as women are less inhibited and more emotional than men, his machine works better on them. 11 It is so delicate that when one was tried on Mr Douglas Corrigan, the airman who made the surprise flight across the Atlantic, he nearly broke the instrument. “My machine,” said Dr. Marston, “will furnish a scientific test for marital relations and ought to lower the divorce rate. “If tried before marriage, it will prevent mistakes.”