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...father, founder of the potent Crane Co. (plumbing fixtures). Last week the bells were tested in London and found to be in perfect harmony with a 53-bell carillon which will soon ring from the Canadian houses of Parliament at Ottawa. The St. Chrysostom bells will be operated by electro-pneumatic machinery and can be played by telegraph from a distance of 3,000 miles. The keyboard has a touch as delicate as a piano...
Died. William Merrick Sweet, 66, eye surgeon; in Philadelphia, of pneumonia. He experimented successfully with plastic surgery on the eyeball, devised a method of using x-rays to locate foreign bodies in eyes, but gained best repute for the electro-magnet he invented in 1905 to pull iron and steel splinters from eyes...
These and many more events of 1926 were in the minds of scientific gentlemen who thronged, about 1,000 strong, in 15 sections and 43 allied societies, to Drexel Institute, Philadelphia. There their retiring president, Professor Michael Idvorsky Pupin, onetime Serbian shepherd, now oft-honored electro-physicist of Columbia University, greeted them with poetic discourse upon the progress of electrical communication, beginning with James Clerk Maxwell's monograph on magnetism in 1873 and Heinrich Rudolf Hertz's experiments with pulsations in the ether in 1889, through Marconi's practical application of Hertz's discoveries, to modern radio and radiotelephony. Himself...
...forward, but is none the less not always appreciated at its true importance : Snook. I am constantly being laughed at because my name is Snook, and yet we are a good family with three of us in the new Who's Who. Homer Clyde Snook is a great electro-physicist. John S. Snook was a member of the 57th and 58th Congresses. And John Wilson Snook owns a 506 acre livestock ranch at Baker, Idaho, and is Prison Warden at Salmon, Idaho. People here in the East don't seem to know about the Snook family...
...electro-physicists this title was a great deal more significant than it would have sounded to laymen. It meant that Dr. Coolidge-the man who, besides his X-ray work, first learned to make brittle tungsten ductile and so suitable for electric light bulbs ("Mazda") of low price and long life-that this man of results had been exploring a field discovered 50 years ago by Sir William Crookes of England and only faintly understood ever since...