Comments on: Scientists Invent Machine To Discover How Brain Works (Apr, 1935)

By: Alan B. Barley

Alan B. Barley — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 04:55:39 +0000

Barely 1 year after this article was published there was a gathering of 60 “brain wave” researchers. — It certainly caught on fast.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com.....you-think/

By: blokeice

blokeice — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:55:28 +0000

It would appear that this is a precursor to the modern EEG device.

By: William Deering

William Deering — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:50:20 +0000

Jari: I read it the same as you and have similar conclusions. Jari & Tornonto: Possible first draft edit as follows: Change main title to “Scientists Invent Headpiece To Discover How Brain Works”. Change right caption to read “Right – The inventors of the headpiece watch the displayed action current on an oscilloscope screen.”. In the article’s main text change the words “photographs amplified” to read single word “detects” (line 4); delete “the action of” (line 8); add “potential evidence of” between “up” and “electrical” (line 12); and replace second to last sentence “The currents – - – glass disc” with “It is amplified 500,000 times and viewed on the screen of an oscilloscope’s CRT (Cathode Ray Tube)” (begins in line 15, ends in line 17).

By: Don

Don — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:04:35 +0000

Mike: “What do you get if you multiply six by nine?”

By: Toronto

Toronto — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:33:01 +0000

Jari: I think you’re misreading that. He’s not saying the current of the circuit was “volts”. He described a “current” of electricity, ie some electric “action” and its potential is about a ten millionths of a volt.

“Flashed across a glass disk” is so much more poetic than “thrown up on the o-scope.” Maybe after the article they could get the budget for a strip recorder, anyway. Then we could have read “dancing needles tell a hula-like story, a story of the brain.”

By: Jari

Jari — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:23:10 +0000

Seems that Dr Jasper and Dr Carmichael accomplised a lot in neuroscienses according the Google. And this particular article was in eighth place. Talk about fast indexing

Current measured as volts? “..flashed across a glass disc” apparently the writer wasn’t from the electric/electronic department of the Modern Mechanic.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:05:20 +0000

The machine answered “42″