Show C 1 Masters Static T Wireless Puzzle 31 Professor or c of t Columbia Columbi Makes System Available De- De Despite De De- spite Interference v HAS MANY NOTED INVENTIONS R Remarkable Career Career- Begun as P Poor or Immigrant Immigrant Im Im- Im- Im migrant t Boy Has Crowning Glory Glory- Coil Coll Most Remarkable of Mi His Achievements New York Pr Prof f. f Michael ael I. I of Columbia university has hns Just juit devised devised devised de de- de- de and will soon announce a perfect i method ethod of eliminating static interference interference ence nce with wireless transmission This J Interference has been the great drawback drawback drawback draw draw- back t to wireless telegraphy since that means mean of f c communication was in In- vented Th The new invention if It it accomplishes perfectly its object wl will 1 be listed as one of the most Important electro electro- physical discoveries ever made Under Under Under Un Un- der present conditions it is often Impossible Impossible Im Im- un- un possible to get wireless messages through for d days because aus of atmospheric ic and other physical Interferences and at all times of ot the me year year- during portions of the day transmission trans trans- transmission mission Is Impossible Professor Pu- Pu pins pin's Invention however Is intended tomake to tomake o make it possible to use the wireless for 24 hours a d day Y every day In the year year The Importance of the Invention In time of f war Is Incalculable I Came as an Immigrant The Invention became known wn rece recently recent recent- t- t I ly when Columbia university alumni gave a n testimonial dinner to Professor at nt Although the dinner was arranged primarily for engineering en en- graduates all alumni of al all schools were asked to honor the man who as an nn Immigrant boy landed at Castle Garden in the fall tall of of 1874 87 Professor thus singled out by Columbia to be honored as Its foremost foremost fore fore- most contributor to 10 science and engineering engineering en en- has a unique place In in Columbia's Columbia's Co Co- Co- Co lumbia's history Dr Cary Gary T. T HutchInson HutchInson Hutch- Hutch Inson luson in the Columbia Alumni News sketches hes his life When the b boy y landed at al the Battery Battery Battery Bat Bat- tery he wearing a red fez started up Broadway Newsboys Ne began to poke fun at him there was a fight which the Immigrant won He ETc Ie went vent back to the Battery and was ta taken en as a laborer laborer labor labor- er t to Maryland there he drove a U mule team He Tie worl worked his way ay back to New NewYork NewYork NewYork York usually serving as is a hired man manon manon manon on farms In New ew York the youth y got any work possible studying nl its nid rea reading Ing the newspapers assiduously He attended night school at Cooper Union saving his money un and by 1870 1879 he had hoarded lie He took an nn OX e ex examination for Co Columbia and won a scholarship He was graduated In four years ears and then he studied In England England England Eng Eng- land and Germany Devised Wireless Tuning In Ir 1888 he was asked to become professor professor pro pro- fessor on n the the theoretical sl side e of a n anew anew new course ourse In electrical engineering Since then his Inventions have haw l been many and Important One of them them themIs Is an n In wireless tuning tuning tun tun- ing practiced today in wireless telegraphy Professor was the first In this co to take up the study of of ray ray X-ray he was the first in this country to repeat repeat repeat re re- peat the Roentgen experiments and the first to use the X-ray X practically for tor surgical purposes Probably his most important invention is 15 th the coil coll universally used in telephony and telegraphy which has done more to extend extend ex ex- tend the sphere of telephonic w rk than all nIl other Inventions together and which makes possible t telephone l phone talk from New York to San Francisco James Jumes Boyce Boyc Civil war veteran and watchman In the halls halls' of ot the state department department department de de- de- de will wUl either change his job or shave his whiskers If Col W. W W. W Harts superintendent of f public buildings build build- ings lags and grounds orders ar are to be In- In forced However the old fighter has not lost any riny of his spirit for Senator Brandegee of ot Connecticut has Interceded Interceded interceded Inter Inter- ceded In an un effort to save one of ot the finest sets of whiskers and relics of the battle of Bull Run |