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...Blake was widely known as the inventor of the "Blake Transmitter," which he perfected in 1878 and which has done much to advance the development of telephony throughout the world. Since then he has patented numerous other electrical devices of importance...
...meeting of the New England Wireless Society will be held in Robinson Hall. Tufts College, this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. G. W. Pickard '96, of Amesbury, a noted inventor and one of the first men to obtain successful transmission of speech by Hertzian waves, will speak. Members of the Harvard Wireless Club and all other students in the University, who are interested are invited to attend...
...operation of the swell shutters by a form of electro-pneumatic engine perfected by Mr. Ernest M. Skinner, the builder. It affords an extraordinary command of the swell shades, giving no trace of sudden or erratic movement when the folds are opened. This swell engine is regarded by its inventor as the greatest single advance in the mechanism of the modern organ...
...pillar in American finance. In the Spanish-American War, he was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Volunteers, and as an attache of Major General Shafter's staff, he took part in the operations in Cuba culminating in the surrender of Santiago. Colonel Astor was the inventor of several useful mechanical appliances and also the author of a book...
...improvement of intellectual relations between Germany and the United States. It is limited to the improvement of mutual relations and interests in research, scholarship, education, professional courtesies, literature, and art. Professor Hugo Muensterberg, who is exchange professor at the University of Berlin for the current academic year, is the inventor and promoter of the enterprise and is serving as the first director of the "Institut." It has been endowed for $20,000 by German-American bankers and other persons who are interested in the advance of social and educational co-operation between the citizens of the two countries...