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During the War he developed the apparatus used by the United States Navy for submarine detection, and invented the hydrophone, an instrument used for taking soundings in navigation. More recently he designed the wireless equipment of the Bowdoin, the ship in which MacMillan explored the Arctic Regions...
...romance of the sea still lingers, in spite of steam and wireless. Mariners and fictioneers, between them, have kept alive the tradition that such natural monstrosities do exist. From the Hydra down, through Pliny's dragon which the army of Regulus besieged, and the great beast that Beowulf conquered in a battle to the death, famous stories have grown up around "facts" that science denies. The "sea-worm" was a very real object to the northern sailors, and it has flavored all the old literature of the ocean...
...schedule, which consisted of a private performance before graduates on December 20, and public performances in Cambridge on January 3, Brookline January 5, West Newton January 6, and Providence on January 9, Features of the play are the music by L. A. Barlow '23, including "Looking Backward" and "The Wireless Blues", and a specialty trio, "When Nero Played His Fiddle in a Roman Cabaret" by J. R. West '23, L. F. Holmes '24, and H. S. Pinkham '25. The singing and acting of C. H. Morgan '24 as Mary Stevens Blair and Cleopatra, have been especially praised...
...operation. When one city possesses twenty broadcasting centers, and each at the same time sends out a different form of entertainment, the result is terrible even to the ear of a trained stone-blaster. It is this problem which Secretary Hoover declares is undermining the whole, useful future of wireless. If Dante were journalistically inclined today, he would be adding another circle to his Inferno, and unless controlled...
What have we to send by this wireless to Norway? A report of the Ku Klux Klan, or perhaps an account of the censorship of Jurgen? We get in return an even exchange of news of the party machinations in England or the intrigues at Lauzanne, or perhaps Lenine's promise of a capitalistic socialism. It will be recalled what narrow-mindedness was found "45 minutes from Broadway." What was sent to Norway on this trial message was. "How is the weather...