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...eyes of frogs. The frog was killed and his eye was then immediately removed. The eyeball was cut in two and the optic nerve, which ordinarily connects it with the brain, was attached instead to two electrodes connected with a vacuum-tube amplifier such as is used in wireless telegraphy...
...whatever statistics come out of this investigation, one defect is glaringly apparent even to the layman. Crime and its methods have advanced as rapidly as the rest of civilization. The old-time "jimmy" and the nitroglycerine "soup" are now aided by elaborately planned, wireless-informed rings operating with the most modern tools and making a getaway in high-powered cars. To combat this the old-fashioned equipment and ponderous methods of the police departments are hopelessly inadequate...
...attempt is being made to broadcast the debate by wireless telephone through the Medford Hill broadcasting station, but the success of this plan is doubtful...
...meeting yesterday afternoon, the University Debating Council decided that it will be impossible to accept the challenge of Ashland College, Ashland, Ohio, to a debate this year by means of wireless telephone or radiophone. The council felt that in view of the approaching triangular debate with Yale and Princeton and especially due to lack of efficient sending apparatus in the University such a debate would be impracticable. It is altogether probable that by another year, the suggestion will be put into effect, and they by using a powerful radio station in Boston or by additions to the equipment...
...course, this invention and the wireless phone will revolutionize educational methods. Everyone will own a complete library in his field and will carry it about with him in a Boston bag. Strips of reading will be catalogued by number, like phonograph records, and assignments will be made by number and by the foot. The lecture-room will naturally fall into the limbo of the past as lectures, each at a different wavelength, are broadcasted from the professor's study to students in outlying cities within a specified radius. Examinations, however, will flourish no less hardily, for the otherwise untrammeled absentees...