The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-01
Makes Remarkable Experiments n
Wireless 1eIegraphy
YALE PROFESSORS TAKE INTEREST
INVITE YOUNGSTER TO CONTIN
UE WORK At COLLEGE
LABORATORIES.

NEW HAVEN, OOIlIl., NOV. 1-AI
10 years Of age Malcolm Dooliitle Of
this city has made such great progress
in scientific experiments that Yale
professors are taking a personal inter-
est in him to the extent of inviting
him to their laboratories in Winches-
ter hall, and there sympathetically
and helpfully discussing with him his
experiments in wireless telegrapny.
Malcolm Doolittle is rosy-cheeked
schoolboy of sturdy frame and prepos-
sessing manners. He is thoroughly a
boy, with boys love Of his dog and
mis- cats, but he loves his scientific in
struments and his books rather more.
other schoolboys cannot quite enter
into sympathy with him, because they
do not understand what he does and
thinks out.
In the barn in the hear of mis- faith
er's home, ia Bradley street. the lad
has fitted up a workshop where he
experiments. A seventy-five foot mast
has been erected in the yard and wire
less apparatus installed. The wires
at run from the masthead have been
anchored at the termini of the lot and
the outfit makes an imposing appear
ance from a distance, suggesting a
commercial wireless station on a re-
duced scale. Half mile from NAL
collins home on top of the Orange
street public school is a similar wire
less arrangement, in which the boy
utilized the school flagpole, with per-
mission to do so from the principal
of the school.
When the United States cruisers
the Denver, the Cleveland and tae
Minneapolis were mere few weeks ago
Malcolm was able to call them from
his little station at home. He has
been able to catch repeatedly mes
sages sent from Long Island sound
steamers and from wireless stations.
He is a better sender than receiver
of the code, but is quite able to oper-
ate his apparatus, which consists of
modern instruments, in the same man.
ner that regular operators do.
He is a modest lad. 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
continue were too much publicity
given to his work.
He is now at work upon a new re-
ceiver which, he has been told. will be
a distinct benefit to the wireless cause
if he succeeds in bringing it to per-
lection. Such rapid progress mas he
made with it in the last few weeks
that he is tempted to work upon i.
to the exclusion of proper rest. He
says he feels "sure he has got it," 1t
is related that not long ago he finished
an appliance of much benefit to him
in his apparatus and applied it. A
week or two later he visited a wire
less station in New York and found
an identical piece of new apparatus
in use there which the inventor had
patented only a few weeks earlier.
"All there was to that was that two
Of us had hit upon the same idea, but
the inventor in New York had patent
ed his and put it to practical test
while I was hesitating," said the little
inventor, not with any trace of pique
in his manner, but rather an ad-
mission that the other fellows inven-
ton had proved his (Malcolm's) theory
was sound.