Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emmet, consulting engineer of the Company, is the man behind the boiler. Time will be required to develop and perfect the system, but two of the boilers already exist, one in the laboratories at the Schenectady works, the other in actual and successful operation at a generating station of the Hartford (Conn.) Electric...
Professor Solon Irving Bailey '88, senior member of the staff of the Harvard College Observatory and Phillips Professor of Astronomy since 1912, who has been in charge of the station at Arequipa, Peru, for the last two years, has been given the degree of Doctor of Science by the University of San Agustin at Arequipa, Peru, and at the same time was made Honorary Professor of Astronomy at the University...
...Professor Bailey was sent to Peru to investigate conditions there in order to determine the best location for a southern station for the Harvard College Observatory. His examination of the west coast of South America, from the equator to southern Chile, resulted in the selection of Arequipa. This station, because of its southern location, its numerous telescopes, and its high altitude of 8000 feet is of considerable importance and supplies the major part of the material that is used in the astronomical investigations at the Harvard Observatory...
...Deputy of Ariége was responsible for starting a hot controversy in Paris by suggesting that the debates in the Chamber of Deputies be broadcast by the Eiffel Tower Wireless Station. The issue seemed to have become confused between the relative value of ragtime concerts and parliamentary debates. Radio fans were in a quandary...
...University Wireless Club will hold a brief meeting at 7.50 this evening at Crufts Laboratory to discuss means of improving the station. This will be followed by a paper on the Super Heterodyne Receiver, delivered by Mr. Wintringham, formerly with the Western Electrio and American Tel. and Tel. Companies...