Tombstone epitaph., 1916-01-16

4 ET~ of his material and notes
 accumulated for the task re- 4aies 10 the activities of the navy. and that. in this portion of them, the fig ure Of Capt William II. G. Bunard, U. :. N.. is prominent.
 TOT, just as the navy pioneered in wireless. so. within the navy. Captain bu!iard was a leader Of the pioneers. says the New York Sun
 Y really was seventeen years ago that Captain Bullard. then a young naval lieutenant, fresh from Spanish. American war service, was attracted oy a new subject. During his student days at Annapolis electricity and cleo lTlcsl engineering had attracted him. These studies he carried on further loAo"ing graduation. He became known as one Of the electrical shop" of the navy.
 Wireless appealed to him. both as an electrical engineer and as a mlli- tsry officer. With his knowledge of electricity the military possibilities that lay in wireless were readily ap- farent So he threw himself into the subject
 He is now-and has been ever since the position was established three years ago-superintendent of the navy radio service. Tn that capacity he is charged with the direction of the most extensive wireless service in the world today More than fifty shore stations, approximately 250 ship sta tions and about 750 navy radio opera tors are under his direction.
 Under the slender shadows of the trinity of towers on Arlington Heights. overlooking Washington from the Vir- ginia side Of the Potomac, is a brick building, dwarfed by the great struc- lures that rise above it. In one cor ner of this building. on the second floor, Is the office of Captain Bullard.
 Born in Pennsylvania in December. 1866, he Is forty-nine years old. In 1882 he was appointed to the Naval academy. from which institution he was graduated four years later. but to which he has returned for four diff ferent tours Of duty as a member of the faculty Physics, chemistry and electrical engineering have been the branches he has taught, and text. book he has written on electrical en- gineering Is standard there and else where
 h 1899. the year following the Span ish-American war, Nr. Msrconi brought to this country from Italy three sets of his wonderful new wire. less apparatus, the immediate purpose being to use them in reporting the in- ternational yacht races of that year The navy department, long interested in the subject, appointed a board Of four officers to observe and report on the working Of the system.
 Following the report of this board the department placed the battleship Massachusetts, the armored cruiser New York and the torpedo boat Porter at the disposal of Mir. Marconi for further experiments with a shore sta .!cr established on the grounds of the Highland lighthouse, near the en- trance to New York harbor. An an tenna was stretched from the fsgpole near the house of the lightkeeper, and this had the distinction of being the first radio shore station used in the United States Later commercial station was erected near the same spot. and still later. in 1903. the navy put up a permanent shore station there.
 With the erection of the first ex- perimental station the three vessels named were equipped with radio ap- uaratus, the first vessels of the navy ,o be so equipped. This was the be- ginning Of the navy radio service
 Its growth and development has been remarkable. No part of the At Iautic or Pacific oceans is too far away 10 be out of reach of radio gram from an American naval shore station. When the fleet was engaged recently in its big war game on the Atlantic coast the department al Washington was in a position to be ip Instantaneous communication with ev- cry unit
 Ouite as remarkable as the tale Of the development of radio for strategic