Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Originally there were 5000 men enrolled in the Second Naval District Service, but owing to the high standard of the training, the district has been drawn upon heavily to supply men for various other branches of the naval service. Those interested in wireless telegraphy have been sent to the Radio School established at the University; other men have been ordered to the Merchant Marin; still others to Annapolis or to the Ensign School at the University for training for officers' commissions...
...next Monday Austin Hall, formerly used by the Law School, will be opened for the class work of the Radio School. A large operating room, seating 500 men and equipped with the most modern wireless instruments, is to be one of the features of the building...
...addition to the operating room Austin Hall will furnish three large lecture rooms that will be used in teaching the theory of wireless, and radio work. After Monday, the first six weeks of theoretical instruction will be held in Austin, thus giving much needed space in Pierce Hall for the rapidly growing classes. The use of Austin Hall will allow the Government to increase the size of the Radio School without overcrowding the present quarters. It is expected that the number in the school will be gradually increased until a total of 2,500 are enrolled at all times...
...larger units together for each manoeuvre. This is for the purpose of solving that difficult and knotty problem known in the French Army as "la liaison." By "liaison" they mean the co-ordination of units and branches, obtained by mutual understanding of unit commanders, by runners, airplanes, telephone, wireless, etc. To win a battle in trench warfare the artillery must co-operate with the infantry, and every separate unit must co-operate with all the other units on the whole line. You can see the stupendous task this is, and the amount of practice it will take to accomplish...
Professor Pierce, who has been granted a year's leave of absence and whose place here has been temporarily filled by Professor E. L. Chaffee '08, was carrying on investigations in the field of wireless telegraphy before his departure. Professor Bridgman was engaged in experimental work on high pressures...