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...progress of the department has been steady, and at present the laboratory is engaged in research work of interest to the whole scientific world. The erection of the Cruft High Tension Laboratory has marked a departure into a new field of investigation. Experiments with the wireless telephone, begun a few years ago by Professor Peirce and Dr. Chaffee, have been resumed recently. Moreover, direct wireless communication with Berlin has lately been established...
...violet rays, and Professor Sabine's investigation of the transmission of sound, and its applications to building materials are among the many important researches going on. At present, there are more than a score of pieces of investigation in progress in the Jefferson Laboratory, with many more in the Cruft. Work so brilliant and of so advanced a nature merits the recognition and approbation of the University in general...
Late last night a wireless was received at the Cruft Laboratory, addressed to the CRIMSON. It runs as follows...
With the erection of the new antenna over the Cruft Memorial Laboratory, a number of important experiments have been carried on by Professor G. W. Pierce and his assistants. On Wednesday a very distinct message was received from Berlin, a distance of over 3,000 miles, and on several occasions stations on the Pacific Coast have been heard distinctly. The new aerial which was just completed during the recent holidays, is as large, if not larger, than any employed by any other University in the United States, and is made up of five wires stretching from the 100-foot standards...
...last edition of the Official Guide was published in 1908. The new edition will be brought up to date, including descriptions of buildings erected in the last seven years, as the Widener Library, the new Chemistry Laboratory, the Cruft Laboratory and the new gates. It will also contain the Technology agreement and other information concerning the history of the University...