Marconi to the Rescue! Trinity Now in the Vanguard of Scientific Progress. Trinity Tripod, May 15, 1914

MARCONI TO THE RESCUE!

Trinity Now in the Vanguard of Scientific Progress.

Trinity now has a wireless station. It is located in the balance room of Jarvis Hall of Science. No, it has nothing to do with the Mexican War; Huerta and Villa will not be interviewed. Doctor Luther, Mr. Knowlton and Raymond W. Woodward, '14, are responsible. Dr. Luther felt a need of direct communication with Arlington, Va., from where he could get the official time at which to set the observatory clock. He called upon the physics department which put the proposition in the hands of Woodward, Trinity's wireless expert. Woodward constructed a modern receiving set with a regular galena detector of the latest type. Mr. Knowlton scraped together a spark coil and telegraph key, property of the department, and the machine was hitched onto that wire frame that runs from the roof of Jarvis Hall to Boardman Hall. Since the installation of the set, the time signal has been received several times from Arlington and the observatory clock duly corrected thereto. Who can deny that Trinity is in touch with the outside world?

By means of the sending outfit, the operator has commenced to disseminate Trinity culture throughout the community. As the outfit has a sending range of three miles and over, the citizens of Hartford who are wireless fiends ought to grow cultivated rapidly. One victim has been found already, but he is as far away as Keney Park. Mr. Woodward told the Tripod reporter in a recent interview that the lofty location of the college on the hill was very favorable to the spread of knowledge by this method.