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This department also recorded the lectures of the noted visiting physicists who addressed the Tercentenary Conference of Arts and Sciences. Including the talks of Robert A. Millikan, Arthur Holly Compton, Tullio Levi-Civita, Frank B. Jewett, and many other famous scientist, these records will be added to the Cruft Laboratory, which some times ago started a collection of scientific phonograph records...
...actual speaking time of the orators on the last three days amounted to something over 12 hours, and more than 150 records were required to preserve the speeches. Dr. Frederick V. Hunt, instructor in Physics and Communication, and attached to the staff of the Cruft Laboratory, was in charge of the work, and he announced that when the act is completed it will be filed in the University archives in Widener with other Tercentenary material...
...addition there are wires running to the Cruft Laboratory, where phonograph records will be made. The whole system is in duplicate, so that if any part of it breaks down, it can be switched instantly to the other line. And in case of rain, the exercises will be able to be transmitted from Sanders Theatre or Memorial Church in the same...
Members of the Cruft Laboratory who are making the trip are Paul B. King, Jr., John H. Pierce '32, Harner Selvidge '34, and Edward P. York...
...result of several months of research and experiment, the first successful radio-meteorgraph was launched from Blue Hill Observatory on Tuesday; December 10. Followed by radios at Cruft Laboratory and at the Observatory, the instrument attained a height of ten miles and a distance of about 65 miles when the battery failed after more than two hours...