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That, according to famed Electro-Mechanist Michael Idvorsky Pupin of Columbia University: "No rich man in the United States should die without leaving something to Johns Hopkins, the pioneer university of the United States...
...referred to the International Electro-Technical Commission of which he and his fellow travelers are members. They had come to Manhattan for a ten-day sitting, the first they ever held in the U. S. The lean gentleman was Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, who takes pardonable pride, not only in his Boer War decorations and his fast game of squash, but in having founded the commission...
...author of an autobiography, unique among its contemporaries in sanity and in self restraint. Yet his name will linger in history as one of the foremost scientists of his time. So it is with a certain respect that one reads his address at the gathering of the International Electro-Technical Commission in which he suggests the fraternity which is concomitant with science...
Thought Waves. In Leningrad, Professor Vladimir Behterev, of the Leningrad Academy of Science, claimed great advances in the detection of electro-magnetic waves from the human body. "Thought waves," i. e., ether waves broadcast by the cerebral nerve centres, were alleged to have been received with sensitive apparatus in 70% of the experiments made. Men were said to be better receivers of transmitted thoughts than women. "The more accomplished a man is, the better he transmits and the worse he receives." It was not reported how the thought waves, when detected, were translated from meaningless physical effects into intelligible human...
Last week the Pere Marquette Railroad announced successful experiments with an automatic train control similar to the device announced by the Chicago & Northwestern a month ago ( TIME, Oct. 5). Electro-magnetic waves flow into the rails, are picked up by coils under the locomotive's pilot or cowcatcher," condensed, transmitted to signal devices in the engineer's cab. If the engineer is incapacitated or heedless, the current proceeds to operate controls, braking, throttling, halting the train. The incoming signals are despatched automatically by the block towers along the line and keep engineers informed of the condition of each...