You guys probably won't believe this, but you are reading the words of the
original inventor of the Jack Armstrong Truth Detector!!
When I was about 9 or 10 - really don't remember - I got this idea from an
article I read that said that one's temperature goes up slightly when one
lies. so, I fabbed up a box with a strip of cellophane or something hanging
loose near an opening on one side where you would place your finger pad. The
heat of your finger would cause the material to contract and thus to move
outward.
I wrote all this up and sent the little model to General Mills and they
responded that it was a great idea and that they would be offering it as an
official Jack Armstrong "prize." Obviously, they took the basic idea and
built a working (?) device from it.
So, now you have the "rest of the story."
Bet you didn't know that the Yellow Rose was doing stuff even back then!
Glad you got it, Jim . . . now, let's hear all about it!
73/72, George
Amateur Radio W5YR - the Yellow Rose of Texas
Fairview, TX 30 mi NE of Dallas in Collin county EM13QE
"In the 57th year and it just keeps getting better!"
<mailto:w5yr@att.net>
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Sheeley" <wb4qda@yahoo.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] The Orion Odyssey and Watch
> Now you are going to have a lot of fun. I hope to work
> you Qrion to Orion .
> After having mine 5 weeks .I sure am liking it more
> and more everyday .
>
> 73 de WB4QDA John
>
> --- Jim Reid <jimr.reid@verizon.net> wrote:
> > It is here!!
> >
> > Fed Ex truck drove up at 0056Z (2:56pm HST).
> >
> > Now unpacked and ready for what comes next, hi.
> > The
> > very fine shipping box was in great shape; same for
> > the contents.
> >
> >
> > > Captain Midnigh't's secret decoder ring! Yep, had
> > one of those.
> >
> > Me to.
> >
> > My bigger disappointment was my Jack Armstrong
> > "magic
> > answer box"; a small, red box. You pressed your
> > thumb
> > firmly against the side after asking a question; a
> > needle
> > deflected a bit to some sort of truth scale or some
> > such.
> > But it really never told me any great truths of
> > life!
> >
> > > At least, we don't have to send our money in weeks
> > or
> > > months in advance and then wait for our toys to
> > come
> > > Railway Express.
> >
> > That's the way the EF Johnson Co. shipped my Viking
> > II kit
> > many decades ago. And yes, I had to bicycle down
> > to
> > the So. Pacific RR station at the Railway Express
> > office
> > every afternoon after the So. Pacific Daylight
> > steamed
> > through town. The day the huge, heavy box at last
> > came, I had to get my Mom to drive to the station
> > to
> > pick the thing up, hi. My dad had bought the kit
> > as
> > a birthday gift for me (after much begging on my
> > part).
> >
> > Those were truly the days..........
> >
> > 73, Jim KH7M
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