"Diagnoscope" Supposedly Measures Mental Development and Proper Career, Oct. 19, 1926

Machine That “Reads” You Berlin, Oct. 19—Extraordinary claims are being made for a new instrument, the “diagnoscope,” invented by a Berlin scientist. It is said to register the mental development and capacity with such accuracy that it can be employed to determine the career for which a person is best fitted.

The patient sits in front of an apparatus having the appearance of a wireless set without valves or crystal. A metal rod, connected to the machine by wires, is held in the hands, while a specially devised band is clamped over the head.

The current is then switched on and the operator proceeds to pass an electrode over the sitter’s head and face. By establishing electric contact with the brain, the apparatus registers the mental reactions of the sitter, the complete record being made in half an hour.

By comparing the results chartered by the machine with the sister’s answers to certain questions relating to his personal ambitions and leanings, it is said to be possible to give definite advice on the part in life the sitter is best equipped to play.

From page 3 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 1926

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