The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-28
AMAZED
BY BOYS WIRELESS.
Yale Is Astonished by 13-Year-
ODDS Remarkable Elk
periments.
New York Herald Special Service.

New York Herald Special Service.
+ New Haven, Conn.,, Oct. 27.-At Is
years of age Malcolm Doolittle Of this
city has made such great progress in
scientific experiments that Yale profess !
sors are taking personal interest in
him to the extent of inviting him to
their laboratories in Winchester Hall,
fully discussing with him his expert
sments in wireless telegraphy. aG.
Malcolm Doolittle is a rosy-cheeked
schoolboy. of sturdy frame and prepos-
sessing manners He is thoroly a boy,
with boys love of his dog and his
cats, but he loves his scientific instru-
ments and his books rather more. 9th
er schoolboys cannot quite enter into
sympathy with him, because they do
not understand what he does and thinks
out.
In the barn in the rear Of his faith
err home, TIA Bradley street, the lad
has fitted up workship where he sex-
periments. A seventyfve foot mast
has been erected in the yard and wire
less apparatus installed. The wires that
run from the masthead have been an
chored at the termini Of the lot and
the outfit makes. an imposing; appear
yance from a. distance, suggesting
commercial wireless station on a re-
duced scale. Half mile from Nal
colin s home on top Of the Orange street
arrangement, in which the boy has util-
|. lied the school fagpole,. with permits
sion to do so from the principal of the
school. ,-s .a, 80 IS, :E5s--
When the United States cruisers the
Denver, the Cleveland and the Mime
apolis were here few weeks ago Nal
colin was able to call them from his
little station at home. He has been
able to catch repeatedly messages sent
from Long Island sound steamers and
from wireless stations. He is better
sender than receiver of the code, but
is quite able to operate his apparatus,
which consists Of modern instruments,
in the same manner that regular opera
/ tors do. ~, . 49,.
f., He is q modest lad. o. He disliked to
be interviewed, fearing that the sym
pathetic interest Of certain, scientists,
with whom he has been privileged to
discuss his experiments, might not con-
tinue were too much publicity given to
| his work. ..,,, = 49, -. =, -,..:.., -
ri know good deal more about
wireless than I did when began to
experiment, Of course. But I have a
lot more to learn. feel that ! have
made little more. than beginning OF
what the scientists KNOW said he.
Young Doolittle generously remem-
bered his school friend, Shepa+-l De
Forest, son of DR.. Louis De Forest Of
this city, but not related to the invent
or of a wireless system, while talking
to correspondent. The two boys have
| worked together more or less and each
has a station. But Malcolm Doolittle
has been the more persistent in his re-
search and accordingly is the more adj
vanced. r.. -@,..yg @ ., ..-~t ar
He is now at work upon a new re-
/ ceiver which. he has been told, will be
distinct benefit to the wireless cause
! if he succeeds in bringing it to perfec-
tion. Such rapid progress has he made
with it in the last few weeks that he is
tempted to- work upon it to the exclu-
sion, of proper rest. He says he feels
'Hsure< he has got; it.. - It is related
that not long ago he finished an APP
| pliance of, much benefit to him in his
apparatus and applied it. A week or
| two later he visited a wireless station
! in New York and found an identical
piece of new apparatus in use there
which the inventor had patented only
few weeks earlier. =. - IT, 49,
I "All there was to that was that two
/ of us had hit upon the same idea, but
the inventor in New York had patented
i his and put it to practical test while
I was hesitating,' said the little invent
I or, not with any trace Of piaue- in his
manner, but rather an admission that
/ the other fellows invention had proved
| his (Malcolm 81 theory was sound. . =