How's your stomach? Washington, D.C., Sept. 8. Dr. Fred A. J. Geier, member of the faculty of Georgetown University Medical School, looks thru the gastroscope, a newly designed instrument by which the medicos can explore your tummy as easily as though it were laid under his eyes on a table. Establis

Teachers shock students at George Washington U. Washington, D.C., Aug. 2. Public speaking students at G.W. U. are only too well acquainted with the shocking machine, invented by Dr. Willard Hayes Yeager, Head of the department, to take the "ahs" "ers" and "ums" out of their diction. He is shown putt

What next? Unborn baby's heartbeat broadcast from Washington hospital. Washington, D.C., Sept. 13. As part of an educational program, the heartbeats of an unborn baby were broadcast today from Georgetown University Hospital. This was made possible by the use of a specially designed microphone placed

Testing airplanes lenses used in map making. Washington, D.C., May 6. Dr. F.E. Washer of the U.S. Bureau of Standards testing the lens for the airplane cameras that are used by the Army and Navy. There are lights in the rear of the columnmeters and exposures are made on the photographic plate in fro

U.S. conducts tests to improve acidity standards. Washington, D.C. June 16. At the National Bureau of Standards, Dr. Walter J. Hamer is making very accurate electrometric measurements on acidity standards. They are useful in the practical control of many processes such as electroplating, purificat

New fathometer used at full speed. Washington, D.C., May 7. Dr. Herbert Grove Dorsey of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey has invented an instrument to secure the precise measurement. The machine sends a sound, pitched so high that it is above audibility, traveling thru the water a known speed, the

Machine performs half a day's manual labor in 5 minutes. Washington, D.C., Dec. 22. H.J. Keegan of the U.S. Bureau of Standards, using the spectrophotometer to determine the different colors in a piece of cloth. It formerly took a man a half a day to make this spectrum analysis but now the machine d

Weather signals recorded. add weather device. Washington, D.C., Sept. 13. By means of this chronograph, Dr. L.V. Astin records the weather signals sent down from the radiometeorograph attached to the balloon as it soars anywhere from 9 to 11 miles in the upper air. 9/13/37

Bureau of Standards speeds up photomicrography with new apparatus. Washington, D.C., Aug. 18. By means of this new apparatus just designed by the metallurgical divisions of the National Bureau of Standards, it is now possible to make 700 micrographs per working day of the structural effect of corros