Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Plans for a season of increased activity and interest are now being completed by the University Wireless Club. During the fall, the club's apparatus and effects have been moved from the Union to new quarters on the lower floor of Westmorely. The new station, which is reached by a special entrance on Bow street, is being fitted up as a comfortable club room where files of the leading radio periodicals and pictures of other stations and apparatus may be found. It is planned to have a series of meetings here, with talks by men prominent in the radio...
Perhaps the greatest invention to make for the safe navigation of ocean-going ships since the introduction of the sextant and wireless, has been the gyroscopic-compass. Since the first introduction of the mariner's compass by the Chinese, every ship's compass, however improved the type, has depended upon the magnetic properties of the earth for its direction, and been subject to no end of disturbing forces arising from iron and steel in the construction of the ship itself. Many marine disasters have been caused by local disturbances of which the ship-master himself was not aware. The well...
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...wire system comprises 64,800 miles and provides for an almost instantaneous distribution of news from Houlton, Maine, to Seattle, Washington, and elsewhere through regional ramifications. it is conceivable that a remark of international importance might be flashed from the Union to San Francisco, thence by wireless to the Phillippines and so on around the world passing the same remark cabled East from New York, provoking comment in the newspaper offices of Europe while it was still ringing in the ears of the audience at the Union...
After luncheon, which will be held at the Union, the Overseers will proceed to the Cruft Laboratory, where Professor G. W. Pierce will describe the studies in wireless telegraphy which are progressing there, and then to the Chemical Laboratory, where Professor T. W. Richards will tell about the chemical researches of the University. President Lowell will give a dinner at his house this evening to members of the Corporation and of the Board of Overseers...