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Show 'Tin Ear' V TROY, fV. Y. Dr. Donald A. Wilbur of Rensselaer Polytechnic Poly-technic institute is shown testing test-ing a sound detector hastily constructed in the institute's physics laboratory to determine deter-mine how effectively such cheaply built devices might be adopted throughout the country by air raid spotters. A jew boards, a phonograph horn, a microphone and a battery-operated amplifier and ear phones are the ingredients ingredi-ents of the detector that can pick up the sound of bombers five to ten miles distant. |