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...airports have been made remarkably efficient, but what about the flyer who, straying at night from his course, passes near a field at which he is not expected, of which he is unaware? That contingency, too, is now taken care of by a device invented by Research Engineer T. Spooner of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. and demonstrated last week at Bettis Field,*McKeesport, Pa. This device, essentially, is a mechanical ear which may be set to listen, while airport attendants sleep, for any ships that pass in the night. It is a microphone, with a large "loud-hearer" attached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics Notes, Sep. 5, 1927 | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...Edward W. Atkinson, Mrs. George Storer Baldwin, Mrs. Frederick Otis Barton, Mrs. King Charles Barton, Mrs. Charles Foster Batchelder, Mrs. Henry Forbes Bigelow, Mrs. S. Parker Bremer, Mrs. Theodore G. Bremer, Mrs. LeBaron Russell Briggs, Mrs. W. W. Campbell, Mrs. Ambrose Ely Chambers, Mrs. Frank Spooner Churchill, Mrs. George Washington Cram, Mrs. Calvert Crary, Mrs. Howland Davis, Mrs. John Villiers Farwell, Mrs. Henry M. Faxon, Mrs. John Huston Finley, Mrs. Hollis French, Mrs. J. Mott Hallowell, Mrs. Franklin Hamilton, Mrs. William S. Holbrook, Mrs. Chester A. Howe, Mrs. Henry Bauer Humphrey, Mrs. Byron S. Hurlburt, Mrs. Henry Parsons King...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPLETE ARRANGEMENTS FOR SENIOR SPREAD | 6/13/1921 | See Source »

...Assistants in Economics; David Arnold Keys as Assistant in Physics; Richard Stockton Meriam '14 as Assistant in Social Ethics; Raymond Lesley Webster '13 as Assistant in Prosthetic Dentistry; Joseph Vincent Fuller '14 as Austin Teaching Fellow in History; Leslie George Wright as Austin Teaching Fellow in Chemistry; Leslie Hinckley Spooner '03 as Assistant in Medicine (Graduate School); William Fletcher Knowles, M. D., '85, as Clerical Assistant in Larynology; Oscar Baxter Ryder, A. M., '16, as Instructor in Economics; James Wallace Hopkins and Bancroft Huntington Brown as Instructors in Mathematics; Tracy Augustus Pierce and William LeRoy Hart as Benjamin Pierce Instructors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAST CORPORATION MEETING PROLIFIC WITH APPOINTMENTS | 10/13/1917 | See Source »

Walter Hastings Hall.--4, V. Nitche, L. B. Van Hollen; 14, H. H. Gorman '16, R. S. Spooner '16; 45, F. B. Hubschek (1L. next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROOMS FOR NEXT YEAR ASSIGNED | 4/17/1915 | See Source »

...White 1L., P. D. Woodbridge '17, L. H. Zach '18; 'cello--W. S. Charak '17, S. L. Kuhn '16, E. B. Packard '16, L. B. Rossbach '18, F. C. Wilson '17, D. O. Woodbury '18; clarinet--H. H. Dampman '18, A. D. McLean '18, R. S. Spooner '16; horns--J. T. Bishop '18, R. Fassnacht, D. J. Grant '18, A. R. Rosenbaum; cornet--M. Blodget '18; bass viol--C. S. Bolster '15, A. B. See '14; viola--A. S. Coolidge '15, H. R. Guild '17, G. H. Robinson, A. L. Whitman '18; flute --L. Park 2G., G. T. Spencer; trombone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIERIAN TO PERFORM IN UNION | 12/12/1914 | See Source »

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