Complex sentence: From 1899 to 1901 he was on faculty at Armour Institute of Technology and Lewis Institute (merging in 1940 to become Illinois Institute of Technology) and conducted his first long-distance broadcasts from the university.
Split into simpler sentences: From 1899 to 1901 he was on faculty at Armour Institute of Technology and Lewis Institute (merging in 1940 to become Illinois Institute of Technology). During that time, he conducted his first long-distance broadcasts from the university.