Saturday, June 30, 2012

Fun with History

Emotion-sensing psychogalvanoscope demonstrated in 1930
An electric galvanoscope played strange tricks yesterday at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios when Dr. Karl T. Waugh, dean of psychology at the University of Southern California, measured the emotions of stars and players with the psychogalvanoscope, new device of science. The emotional impulses were gauged in terms of vacillation of the needle of the intricate but simple-looking machine.
Same as it ever was.

HT pourmecoffee