David Grann Quote
In 1850 Allan Pinkerton founded the first American private detective agency; in advertisements, the company motto, We Never Sleep was inscribed under a large, unblinking Masonic-like eye, which gave rise to the term private eye.... William J. Burns was an avid user of a Dictograph- a primitive listening device that could be concealed in anything from a clock to a chandelier.... Just as Allan Pinkerton, in the nineteenth century was known as the eye, Burns, In the twentieth century had become the ear.
David Grann
In 1850 Allan Pinkerton founded the first American private detective agency; in advertisements, the company motto, We Never Sleep was inscribed under a large, unblinking Masonic-like eye, which gave rise to the term private eye.... William J. Burns was an avid user of a Dictograph- a primitive listening device that could be concealed in anything from a clock to a chandelier.... Just as Allan Pinkerton, in the nineteenth century was known as the eye, Burns, In the twentieth century had become the ear.
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