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Comments. Dr. Michael Idvorsky Pupin, outstanding U. S. electro-mechanist, said: "Sir Oliver Lodge has his ether doing wonderful things. But I don't believe...
...adolescent boy who had these highflown fancies was subject to waking visions that almost amounted to seizures. In the grown youth, an intense, ascetic student of electro-dynamics whose extravagant notions of planet power had given place to practical work on telephones, this visionary weakness became translated into an extraordinary ability to visualize, in minutest detail and exact dimensions, new mechanical devices sprung from an inventive brain...
Today we want a mile of wire fencing eight feet high, 40 vacuum cleaners, and window curtains for 145 windows, all different. Yesterday there were 2,500 mosquito screens for the Business School; 12,000 napkins for the dining halls; a high-vacuum pump and an electro-dyalizer for the Medical School; a pair of andirons and a clock at McKinlock Hall; miles of conduit and electric wires; a variety saw for the carpenter shop; plumbing supplies; lumber; ushers badges for Commencement; paint; mimeograph machines; typewriters; and every day and always, chemicals with impossible names which must be spelled right...
...away is the day when a Francis Bacon could take "all knowledge" for his "province" and not be speedily committed to a private hospital. What, for example, could even semi-encyclopaedic newsgatherers make of "the purification of colloids by electro-dialysis," the feat which Guggenheim money will aid Dr. Richard Bradfield, soil professor at the University of Missouri to accomplish? Dr. William Henry Eyster's project, at the University of Maine, to study "the physiology of chloroplastid pigments," was equally inscrutable. And why should Dr. Ralph Erskine Cleland of Goucher College be given money to pry into "the chromosome...
Meanwhile, on Park Avenue, in Manhattan, the carilloneur having no electro-pneumatic machinery, tugged at levers which rang nine-ton bells and nine-pound bells, waking idlers from their Sunday morning sleep. As everyone knows, these are the bells of the largest carillon in the U. S.?John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s gift to the Park Avenue Baptist Church (TIME, Oct. 5, 1925). To Messrs. Rockefeller and Crane, carillons "sing of eternity and fill the earth with gladsome song"; to jaded sleepyheads, they are no better than an early morning coal delivery...