The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-06
CAN HEAR YOUR TEMPERATURE.
A New Invention which Promises Some
Startling Results.

The very interesting fact is now made
public that a person can hear just now
cold or just how warm he Is. 1t is a
simple instrument that makes this DOS
sible. the invention of George c. Whip
pie and Henry f. Warren, two we'll
known scientists.
The principal features of the inven-
ton are an ordinary battery box and a
coil OF what seems to be ordinary bare
wire. and yet with these aids IL is pos
sible to accomplish what has never be-
fore been even considered feasible by
the world of science.
Here are some of the things that can
be done with this instrument, which
has been named the thermophCne:
You a listen to the sound of your
own temperature.
You can hear how cold or how warm
il IL miles below the surface of the
ocean.
You can sit in the cellar of your home
and listen to the temperature of the
attic.
You can attach one of these instru-
ments to a balloon and by means of a
continuous wire heal how cold or how
warm |. is in cloudlaDd.
You can sit in your parlor and listen
to the changing temperature beneath
the surface of the earth.
You can sit in the room OF the Gus
0ulan OF the SSnalt GndlllDtI III INT
national capitol at Washington and tell
| exactly the degree of the temperature
that surrounds the persons OF the Unit
ed States house Of lords.
And these are only a few of the won
derful things which Professor Whipple
told me We're made possible by the in
vention of the t~hermophone.
Professor Whipple is officially known
as the biologist OF the water depart
/ mani Of the old city nf RrDOE1Nn THAT.
however. is only one of the things that
he really does, for his keenness in OBJ
%servation. coupled with an unusual in
tensity of perseverance, has made him
a rising man among modern scientists.
A correspondent recently visited Mr..
whipple and personally investigated
the instrument. The following IL his
story: Mr.. Whipple said:
There Is no Instrument that instant
IN records temperature. because none
has ever been made or sufficient sensi-
tiveness to make such a thing possible.
The th~ermophone is. however, far more
sensitive than the mercurial thermome-
ter. meaning by that the thermometer
which records the temperature with the
aid of the mercury. 1t is owing to the
fact that the thermophone is so sensi-
tive thai its possibilities In recording
temperature are almost unlimited.
You must understand that when I
say you hear a sound until the exact
degree of FOUR temperature Is recorded
I do not mean that the temperature OF
your body is changing. but that you
near the noise caused by the tempera-
ture until the hand on the dial. which l
viii presently explain, points to the
right degree.
ITO give a more practical Illustration,
YOU know that when you first hear the
noise made by a waterfall you do not
see the waterfall. but n nearer you
approach the louder becomes the sound.
Now, Just reverse these conditions. The
nearer you approach. or. rather. the
nearer the hand on the dial approaches
the exact degree Of your temperature.
the fainter the sound becomes until ut
ter silence indicates that the objective
point has been eache IL Is the tenn
p~erature that makes the noise and the
silence shows Il Is recorded
When I asked Professor Whipple 70
show me the curious instrument that
made al the odd things ! nave told OF
possible he too me over TO a corner oil
the laboratory, where. close TO a gor-
geous incubator. TODD a little brown
battery box. Beside this box lay a coll
Of ordinary wire. insulated. and at TIE
end OF this wire was what O ike
a small brass tube. and. emerging from