Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following are branches in which expert knowledge will be of service: Aviation, Business Administration (quartermaster), Chemistry, Dentistry, Divinity (chaplains), Engineering, En- tomology (camp pests, etc.), Law (Judge Advocate General's Department), Medicine and Surgery, Metallurgy, Meteorology, etc., Navigation, Sanitation, Seismology, Telegraphy and Wireless, Topography (under U. S. Geological Survey, War Department Division), Transportation, Veterinary Science. In addition it may be suggested that business men of good experience in handling problems of supply, transportation, labor, etc., are well suited to enter the Quartermaster's Corps...
Moreover, the chemical laboratories of Johns Hopkins, Pennsylvania, Columbia and numerous other colleges have been opened to Government experts. Likewise the great Tufts wireless tower is offered as a central station for New England...
...torpedo boats left a British port, the passage requiring 12 days instead of the customary 10, due to the course taken as laid down by the British Admiralty. Nothing eventful occurred during the trip through the war zone, but extra precautions were taken when nearing America, as a wireless was received that a German raider was working along the coast...
...Wireless Club will hold an open meeting in the clubroom in the basement of the Union Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. At this meeting Lieutenant Blakeslee, U. S. N., district communication superintendent of the Charlestown Navy Yard, will outline the part played by the radio corps of the Naval Training Reserve in time of war. He will especially urge all men interested in wireless telegraphy to join the Naval Training Reserve at once, as all operators for the proposed patrol boats in case of war will be drawn from this body. An operator seeking such a position after...
...club also announces a class in practical wireless telegraphy, to be given in conjunction with the R. O. T. C., which will give men who are interested but with experience an excellent opportunity to learn the code and get an actual working knowledge of the service. This class has the sanction and hearty approval of Captain Cordier. Enrollments in the Corps will be taken at the meeting Thursday night and hours for instruction will be arranged, probably on three evenings a week...