Blog: Science Vs. Pseudoscience: A Brief History of How Scientology's E-Meter Came Into Existence – Part 4 - 2020-03-22

The Mathison Electropsychometer Model E-AR-400. Circa 1954. Price for this top of the line e-meter was $385 USD. This "psychic x-ray" machine as Volney Mathison promoted it, was based upon vacuum tube technology. Scroll down to the bottom of this installment to check out a PDF of Volney Mathison's product and sales literature.
WHEN DID L. RON HUBBARD & VOLNEY MATHISON FIRST MEET?
Volney Mathison met L. Ron Hubbard in 1950 in California during a series of lectures Hubbard gave. Mathison wrote of the meeting (emphasis ours):
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