COMMON COLDS

Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3467, 17 May 1934, Page 3

COMMON COLDS

MICROSCOPE FOR OBSERVING COLDS. A television super - microscope which, it is claimed, can see the ' germ of the common cold, has been invented by Dr. Vladimir” Zworykin, research engineer of the Victor Company, of Camden, New Jersey (says a New York message). Dr. Zworykin described the “new all-seeing artificial eye” to scientists at Columbia University. Its range of vision extends to the ultra-violet and infra-red wavelengths and opens up vast new fields to science. The midrpscope is similar in mechanism to the human eye. Although not yet a commercial proposition, Dr Zworykin said his instrument—the “icontiscope”—is at the services of scientists. Ultro-violet rays, below a certain range, kill all bacteria under observation, thus rendering very powerful miscroscopes of little use. But the television microscope is ■ equipped with an ‘‘electrical memory” and records the objects as revealed the instant they come within the ultra-violet rays. The infra-red rays can be employed for seeing things through a fog on the lines of the infra-red camera now used in some American liners.