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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cruft laboratory, Harvard's famed center for research in communication engineering, are the experiments on sound, radio transmission, phonograph recording, and light, characteristics. Here is the station which maintains continuous automatic shortwave radio communication with Troy, N. Y. in an investigation of the ionosphere, the little understood deep-blankets of atomic particles which surround the earth a hundred or so miles from the ground and enable long-distance wireless communication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Engineering Society to Exhibit New Equipment and Methods Tomorrow | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Biggest dog-show in the world is Cruft's of Great Britain. The first show was given n 1886 by Charles Cruft, who began his career serving behind the counter of a dog-biscuit shop. Ever since Queen Vic toria entered her collie and three Pomeranians in 1891, the show has been held ach year in Islington's mammoth old, red brick Royal Agricultural Hall. At its olden Jubilee Show three years ago, 10,650 dogs were entered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: 53rd Cruft's | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Last week the 53rd annual Cruft's was leld in Islington without mild little Show man Cruft, who died last fall at the age of 86. Uninvited but prominently present was a group of unemployed, who paraded car rying banners which read: "The dogs are O. K. - judge our condition." Also on hand, "to carry on the show on the lines he want ed," was 66-year-old Widow Cruft, who like her late husband, keeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: 53rd Cruft's | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Died. Charles Cruft, 86, "greatest of dog showmen," organizer of Great Britain's famed Cruft's Dog Shows; of heart disease; in London. In 1891 Queen Victoria gave Cruft's the cachet which has made it Europe's greatest dog show by entering her collie and three Pomeranians. At its Golden Jubilee Show two years ago, 10,650 dogs were entered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 3, 1938 | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...Harvard Ionosphere Observatory, located in the Cruft Memorial Laboratory, is under the direction of Harry R. Mimno, Associate Professor of Physics and Communication Engineering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 6/8/1938 | See Source »

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