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...silly mechanical experiment to a great popular necessity. He saw the phonograph come up from a weird and uncanny curiosity to a general household necessity. He saw the moving picture force its way from a crazy notion to the greatest of all public amusements. And he has seen the wireless telegraph beat down public scorn and take its place as a general means of communication. And now he sees the amateur wireless experimenter and the wireless telephone edging their way slowly but surely-ahead, and he wonders what might be the results five years hence...
...have seen the amateur wireless crank fussing with his queer coils and instruments and many of us have wondered what earthly interest was to be found in listening to the queer little buzzings that were heard. Suppose that these little buzzings did convey some kind of a message, what of it? If messages were wanted the newspapers were full of them. Why go to all the bother of studying a lot of scientific stuff and spend hours trying hopeless experiments, when anything of importance could so much more comfortably and easily be read in the morning paper? There...
...Wireless Came From Telegraph...
...There will be no aces in the next war", said Lieutenant-Colonel Robbins, "for there will be no aviators. There will be huge fleets of airplanes, controlled by wireless, which, by the same control will drop tons of bombs...
...Wireless Club will hold an important meeting this evening at eight o'clock at the operating room is West-morally Hall. At the meeting the wireless station will be put into operation...