NOVEL BROADCAST

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 41, 27 April 1928, Page 16

NOVEL BROADCAST

SOUNDS OL NERVES. A United States Associated Piess message trom Des Moines, dated March 15, stated: ‘Iwo University of Iowa professors, after three years of experimentation have annoutced a plan to broadcast the sound of nerve currents of the human bedy. he men are Dr. Tee I. ‘Travis, assistant professor in psychology, and ‘Theodore Hunter, technician in speech patholog, They will broadcast from the station WHUI, the University station, on the night of April 15, ‘The minute sound made by the curreut that carries ncrve reactions froin muscles and organs of the Lody to the brain or vice versa, has been nicasured by the scientists. ‘The amplifier used in broadcasting will magnify the sound §,000,000 times, * The apparatus used in experiments consist of two electrodes which are fastened to the subject, an amplifier, an oscillograph which records the action of the nerve currents and a motion picture camera which makes a permauent record of the experiment.’’