The thought-reading machine
By: by André Maurois; translated by James Whitall
Contributors: Whitall, James, 1888-1954
Publisher: Harper & brothers
Published: 1938
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: French Science fiction
Description: A French literature professor arrives as a guest lecturer at a fictional American university and quickly becomes friends with a physics professor who has invented a "psychograph" -- the titular thought-reading machine.  When the machine goes on the public market, "life becomes more complicated and considerably funnier" (Newsweek, New York, May 30, 1938).
Notes: "First edition."

Bleiler, E.F.  Checklist of science-fiction and supernatural fiction, p. 136