Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effort to determine the effect of solar disturbances upon the electrical conditions of the earth's atmosphere in relation to radio receptivity and weather changes, the Astronomical Laboratory is cooperating with the Naval Observatory, the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, and the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago. The phenomena known as sun-spots, or violent gaseous convulsions on the surface of the sun, have been proved to affect radio transmission, seasonal changes, and to be a direct cause of the Aurora Borealis, or northern lights...
...second year naval officers are: Lieutenants A. B. Clark, D. W. Mitchell. Roark Montgomery, and J. H. Skillman...
...addition to the naval officers who are studying in the Engineering School, there are 16 army officers, and six naval officers in the Business School, taking the full two year course in business administration...
...first year naval officers are Lieutenants W. A. Best, and Arthur Rembert, both of the Supply Corps...
Lieutenant Myers also pointed out the importance of radio in naval operations, when either distance or the roar of big guns makes all other forms of signalling or communication inadequate, if not impossible. The radio officer of a fleet or line vessel therefore has the success of a naval operation depending to a large degree upon his department...