Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...owned power boats of high speed armed with light guns of various calibre has been established in the Second Naval District for purposes of patroling and defence against submarines in time of war. The personnel of the boats is composed of such volunteers as may, because of nautical or wireless experience, be accepted as qualified for service...
...grass and his last icy immersion. Even though he does belong to a family older than ours by some million years, even if he is a more remote neighbor of the garish sun, even if he is a gentleman, yet we can get along without replies to our wireless greetings, nor smiles to our heliographed winks. We can get along without Mars. Mars is so cold he would freeze alcohol...
...many incentives for that kind of work. The public reward and recognition extended to technologic promoters is out of all proportion to that extended to scientific achievement itself-witness the millions of people who have heard of Edison but not of Theobald Smith, or who think that Marconi invented wireless telegraphy. Probably thousands of Yale men have not heard of Willard Gibbs, one of the most creative minds in nineteenth century science, whose work at New Haven was possible largely because he was a man of means and of good family. Perhaps the general cause of science might prosper more...
...meeting of the Wireless Club will be held in the club rooms in the basemen of the Union this evening at 8.15 o'clock. Dr. E. L. Chaffee '08G, of the Physics Department, will speak on "The Brsun Tube." After the address the club will discuss plans for classes throughout the year. All those who are interested in wireless are invited to attend...
...willing to live his career in the Orient, while there is, perhaps, only one out of 50 chances of greatness at home in some branch of industry which is already highly developed. China wakens and calls for an army of engineers. India, bewailing her illiteracy, calls for teachers. Aeronautics, wireless telegraphy, branches of social service and dozens of other almost unexplored professions are constantly opening for those who feel within them the genius which might spell success, and the enthusiasm which fears no likelihood of hardship...