Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-11-22 | Page 8 | Telephone is Made Clear to High Schools

II TELEPHONE I IS MADE MADEl j I CLEAR TO HIGH IL j H if I SCHOOLS I I f I. I i M Mysteries teries of ot Electrical Instrument Instrument Instrument In- In strument Shown to N N. Y Scholastic Physicists i i T I Te Telephone ephone subscribers of the next decade should ha e a far better knowledge of ol the actual workings of oC the telephone system than their seniors of oC today The l Physics club of New York an i tion which Igl includes dheSI practically ic all o of f the 1 f instructors of physical silences sciences in the 4 Metropolitan schol scholastic zone celebrated its annual election and business meeting by making an Inspection of the laboratories labora- labora 0 f tories lories of the Western Electric company 1 at West Vest street New York City The 9 most modern transmission developments li 1 t i were ere thoroughly explained to the du- du edu- edu cat rs a a. fact which is sure to be reflected in a more comprehensive understanding pf qC telephony among their many thousand V I The new machine switching switching- devices S f which are now being introduced and willI will 1 I i i automatically make connections between subscribers b seemed o of particular r interest es t to the professors ote s They also y spent a considerable period watching the j 4 5 of the repeaters which have made j possible pO the transcontinental telephone I J The company's compans authorities demonstrated I the actual development of oC the telephone i b by taking the visitors through the mui mut mu- mu i t seum scum where they have no exhibition the I actual first inventions and their various l t st stages es o of improvement right up to date i The generation of electric current by byi S i i means of or Rochelle salts and the application application tion of this phenomenon in the us use Ule of its I i crystal both as telephone receivers and andI 4 I I transmitters were eagerly studied by the 1 i teachers At the conclusion of ot the Inspection trip J i the Physics club convened for tor Its annual p election of officers The new executives are all prominent in New York high school Morris Moister former formerly instructor of physics at Stu Stuyvesant HI High h school and now at Teachers' Teachers college Columbia Co- Co lumbia university was elected president Guy It R. Thomas o of New Utrecht High school Brooklyn W was chosen secretary while the new treasurer Js is C. C W. W Lockwood Lockwood Lockwood Lock Lock- wood Instructor of physics at Stuyvesant Among Amon the other members of the Physics club who attended the meeting were Augustus Klock head heal of the de department department do- do of science at Culture school B. B Browlee head of the department of physics and engineering Stuyvesant High lUgh school Thomas Cornish head of the department of physics Wadleigh Wad Wad- leigh High school C. C Ammerman of or the physics department Washington Trying High school chool W. W R. R Pyle head of ot the de department department de- de department of or physics Morris High nigh school 1 r. head of the department of physics teachers teachers' training school NewYork New NewYork York City Floyd Flord L. L Darrow head of at the department of ot science Polytechnic Preparatory Preparatory Preparatory Pre Pre- Pre Pre- school Brooklyn and Harvey IL Newcomer head of or the department of physics High school Brooklyn