Show unbreakable quake recorder Is built severest temblor will not damage new machine philadelphia prin caples that enabled scientists ear her this year to bounce a radar sig sic n nal al off the moon 11 G swift re sea search r ch technician at franklin I 1 estl tute has invented a new el electronic act runic seismograph for measuring the tremor of earthquakes this was announced by armand N spitz director of education at tho the institution who started the 38 36 year old id electronics researcher on his wa way y to inventing the machine when he mentioned the need ot of a selimo graph that would not break becak of severe earth shocks swift who was an instructor in radar during the war with the U S army signal corps recalled an elec tronle device he used when ht he wai wab a prospector tor for an oil company in hi oklahoma the result 1 is the new machine w which swift claims cannot be dam aged by even the severest temblor the worst damage that a quake even of the intensity of the recent caribbean disturbance could do aou would id be to break a id 10 cent spring replaceable within five minutes minute this new device signals to its op aerator by either a bell or light the th instant an earth temblor Is recorded the strength of the signal can be adjusted in the same fame w way a y as ai the volume on a home radio unlike the conventional seisho graph it does not have to be b interrupted in order tor for the operator to read it this particular machine will be used by the polytechnic institute of puerto rico in the heart hari of the earth earthquake C belt invention of this type seismograph has led swift on to another field of electronics he Is hoping to perfect a machine that will plot the pattern of human diseases electronically for use by diagnosticians |