HISTORY3

This bulletin comprises items from "Modern Electrics" -
November, 1913.

INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERS INCORPORATED
        The Institute of Radio Engineers, Inc., filed
organization papers in Albany on August 23, under the
membership corporation law. The object of the society
is to advance the art and science of radio transmission
and to publish works of literature, science and art for
such purposes. The incorporators are Mssrs. R. H. Marriott,
Lloyd Espenschied, A. N. Goldsmith, J. Stone, E. J. Simon,
R. A. Weagant, G. W. Pickard, J. H. Hammond, Jr., and
J. L. Hogan, Jr.
        The Institute was formed about a year ago by the
consolidation of the "Wireless Institute" of New York and
the "Society of Wireless Telegraph Engineers", formerly
of Boston. When the National Electric Signalling Co.
moved its headquarters to New York, a large number of the
members of the Society of Wireless Telegraph Engineers
were transferred to New York and the union of the two
organizations under the new name was the logical result.

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The "Wireless Club Directory" section shows the following:

Canadian Central Wireless Club - 9 Central Avenue,
Armstrong's Point, WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Canada.

Wireless Association of Canada - 189 Harvard Avenue,
Notre Dame de Grace, MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada.

Young Experimenters' Society - Box 251, COATICOOK, P.Q. Canada.

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A Strange Sort of Electrification

        If you take two thin lengths of celluloid, put them
into contact and then suddenly and rapidly pull them between
your fingers, you will observe that they both have become
electrified, not only on their outside surfaces where the
friction of your fingers caused a negative electrification,
but also on the inner surfaces of the celluloid.
        The strange part about this is that one of the inner
surfaces is positively charged and the other is negatively
charged. If one of them is slightly curved, during the
friction, the convex one will be positively charged and the
concave sided one will be negatively charged.
-Dr. L. K. Hirshberg.

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From the "Advice on Patents" section:

        Jas. L. Green, of ROSSER, Man., Canada, submits a
diagram of a telephone transmitting set, and wants to know
if it is worth patenting.
        (A.) The only thing novel about this scheme is the
manner of applying the microphone to the transmitting set,
and while the device might be patented, we hardly think it
would possess enough advantages over other systems to warrant
the spending of much money on it.

        Jas. L. Green, of ROSSER, Man., Canada, submits a scheme
for a wireless telephone transmitter, and asks our opinion of it.
        (A.) This is rather an elaborate system, and also
possesses some novel points, and if it can be made to work as
the author says it will, it is worth while patenting.

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