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Year ago a Mrs. Olivia Burn brought from Africa the first Basenjis England had ever seen. Last February she exhibited them at Cruft's Coronation Dog Show in London and caused something of a sensation...
...Cruft Transmitter...
...methods used in studying the ionosphere at Cruft Laboratory consists of transmitting energy pulses from a special radio transmitter. These purses rise to the ionosphere and are reflected back to the earth as echoes, where they are received by a special radio receiver. The time elapsed between the transmission and reception of each pulse is recorded and the effective height of the layer may then be computed...
...observations over long periods of time in order to obtain representative records. This is difficult to accomplish by manual means except at prohibitive cost. For this reason, Dr. H. R. Mimno of the Graduate School of Engineering, developed special automatic devices to be used for the control of the Cruft Laboratory ionosphere research station. By means of these devices, records can be obtained without the attendance of an operator...
This automatic control operated satisfactorily until 1934 when the staff of Cruft Laboratory was advised by the Federal Communications Commission that either a continuous operator watch must be provided, or the station shut down. The cost of employing an operator being prohibitive, this instruction resulted in an interruption of the experimental research program. The Commission's ruling was based on Section 318 of the Communications Act of 1934, which states that a licensed radio operator must be in charge of a radio transmitter during its operation at all times regardless of its purpose...