WINE TESTING TELEPHONE

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1923, Page 4

WINE TESTING TELEPHONE

-Many connoisseurs of wines pride themselves on their ability to judge the sparkling liquid solely by taste. Oilierli ly on the marks as thev appear i..i the bottles. Still more take someone ewe's word lor it that the vine is good, laid, or indifferent:. French experimenters are now employing a somewhat curious wine-test-ing device. By means of electric citil'cnl linked up to a telephone the true characteristic - of the w ine are ivvenlAs scon cs the wine is matured a lev samples arc iakeii at random. A lube i • then filled with the iiuuid and placed in the circuit of a lcr'ey telephone, sec that the current mi st pn-s thioeeh it. Wine that h pun* conducts (lie cmrciit. with the result, that sounds in tic telephone are heard and interpreted. Should tite wine he adulterated with certain chemical salts, then tho current has dil'iciilry in passing through and the telephone interpret at ions are n nsat islaet ory. Differing samples of genuine wine all eouduc ttlie current more or less. In some cases the telephone .sounds arc perfectly nndihie. while other wines, : II good in quality, produce softer sounds according to their make up . By an ingenious code of rules worked out the action of the electric torrent oil the instrument indicates if tl o