Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Laboratory recently heard from stations on the pacific coast. A while ago it was announced that a message had been received from Berlin. This is not equally remarkable, as will be explained later. Messages from Germany have been received frequently since, and are now no longer the exception. The wireless has also received calls from various southern posts over a thousand miles away. The reach seems to be constantly developing under the expert guidance of the men back of the undertaking...
...particularly true at this season of the year, for at present these rays of the sun are at very nearly their greatest intensity. In the second place, this radiation also tends to defract the waves upward so that they will pass far above the comparatively low aerials of the wireless posts and thus permit no message to be noticed. This is an objection which applies more directly to the flat and more light-colored districts which would thus better reflect the sun's heat. The third cause of difficulty in land operations is, in general, unfavorable conditions of topography. This...
...progress of the department has been steady, and at present the laboratory is engaged in research work of interest to the whole scientific world. The erection of the Cruft High Tension Laboratory has marked a departure into a new field of investigation. Experiments with the wireless telephone, begun a few years ago by Professor Peirce and Dr. Chaffee, have been resumed recently. Moreover, direct wireless communication with Berlin has lately been established...
Late last night a wireless was received at the Cruft Laboratory, addressed to the CRIMSON. It runs as follows...
...order to test the power of wireless outfits for aeroplanes, a dummy flying machine has been erected between the Laboratory and Pierce Hall on which has been placed a complete outfit controlled from the inside of the building. This experiment was begun only a short time ago and as yet no important results have been obtained...