Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Meeting for men interested in wireless in Cruft Memorial Laboratory...
...Powerful Wireless Station...
...steel latticework tower supporting wireless antenna is located on each end of the flat runway on the roof of the building. The new aerial is as large, if not larger, than any used in the United States; it is made up of five wires stretching from the 100-foot standards above the Laboratory across Langdell Hall to Walter Hastings Hall, a distance of over 600 feet. A message has been received from Berlin, a distance of 3,000 miles, and several times stations on the Pacific Coast have been heard distinctly...
...review of all the scouts, of whom there are 2500 in the greater Boston district. Following the parade the events proper will be held, among which will be contests in wall-scaling, fire building, signalling, bridge building, and knot-tieing. There will also be demonstrations of first-aid work, wireless signalling, setting up of temporary encampments and numerous forms of drills. Only the best men from each district will participate in these competitions...
...will be on a large scale. The remainder of the afternoon will be devoted to contests between the ten districts in the events which compose the usual routine of scout work. There will be signaling, both by arms and by heliograph or mirrors, first-aid work. Knot-tieing, portable wireless work, and setting up temporary encampments. The best men from each district have been selected for the competitions...