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Title: Popular electricity magazine in plain English
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Electricity
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Popular Electricity Pub. Co.
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tted, as they have allbeen treated elsewhere. Most of theitems represent recent practice and inany case the reader should now under-stand the chief requirements and. limita-tions, as well as the advantages of a 200meter wave circuit for experimental pur-poses. (To be concluded.) im Harry Hong Sling Harry Hong Sling, a bright, energeticChinese boy, is probably the only wire-less amateur having a station within theloop or business district of Chicago.Harry is fifteen years old, was born onSouth Clark Street and is in the eighthgrade at the Jones school. In one of the pictures he is shownseated in his room which is located uponthe fourth floor of the building in whichhe lives. This room serves both as aworkshop and as a good location forwireless equipment. The lads mechan-ical ability is demonstrated by the num-ber of instruments upon the table whichwere con-structed a t*he work-bench shownon the left.Among themare a helix, arotary sparkgap, a con-denser and atelegraph key.H i s former K
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HARRY HONG SUNG AND HISWIRELESS STATION AMIDSTTHE SKYSCRAPERS OF CHICAGO 332 POPULAR ELECTRICITY MAGAZINE aerial was small and low but recently heerected a higher one of four wires and isseen standing by one of the masts whichis on the roof of a six story building.The aerial height is 80 feet. In the dis-tance is the dome of the Chicago postoffice building. - i Within a few months Harry will goover to China to study the Chinese lan-guage and customs, for China is asstrange to him as to an American boy ex-cept as his father and mother have toldhim about the country by stories andpictures. While Chinese is spoken in hishome Harry writes and speaks most ex-cellent English. Filtering Out Wireless WithoutConfusion Professor Michael I. Pupin, chief ofthe electro-mechanical Department atColumbia University, New York, anddiscoverer of the Pupin cable that per-mits quick and perfect messages to besent under the sea, has just announcedan even more wonderful invention. Hecalls his recent triumph

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