When salaried employees take too much sick time and your company doesnât have a fixed policy, your arms are tied. Thereâs not much you can do but sit back and watch your employee call in sick whenever they want. The reason for this is that salaried employees are protected in most cases from pay deductions.
However, the first attempts to scientifically measure skull shape and its alleged relation to character were performed by the German physician Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828), who is considered the founding father of phrenology. Gall was one of the first to consider the brain to be the source of all mental activity.
The Psycograph The Museum's most popular device was the Psycograph, an antique phrenology machine. Phrenology, created by Austrian physician Franz Joseph Gall, was the 'in theory' of the 19th century for determining personality. According to phrenology, different parts of the brain were organs controlling various character traits. If your head is bigger in an area, you have more of that trait. But if it's flat, there's nothing in there! The Psycograph was patented in 1905 by Henry Lavery of Superior WI. His first machine with 1,900 parts didn't work!