The Carlisle independent., 1917-07-26
GAINS FAME HERE.
Serbian Immigrant Now One of Worlds Greatest Scientists.
New Discovery to Add to Wealth of Man Who Came to the United
 States Penniless in 1874.

The man who made transcontinental telephony possible announced recently that he had completed an invention that would free wireless telegraphy | from static interference, much the same trouble that so long hindered the transcontinental telegraph. He is Prof. Michael I. Pupin. who came to America in 1874 a penniless Serbian immigrant, according to the Kansas City Times. His inventions already have netted him S1,000000 and his most recent one probably will bring him in a sum running into the hun dred thousands.
 Wireless transmission has heretofore been subject to one serious handicap, a composite of atmospheric and phys ical troubles known to scientists as static interference. Under such con- ditions it is often impossible to get a wireless message through for days and during portions of almost every day transmission is out of the ques- tion.
 Professor Pupin announced a year dRO llSl lie DeIleNeu He IldQ SOlNSd the problem. Recently he stated that he had perfected his device and now knew that it would meet all require ments. The value of his invention in time of war is tremendous, as it would give the side possessing it great ad- vantage over it's foes. For that req son Professor Pupin asserted that he would not make public the secret of his invention until the close of the war, and that the United States should be the first to possess it. This one-time Serbian immigrant also is the inventor of the present sys- tenn of ocean telephony. He received $200,000 for that invention. The same loading" coil that rendered ocean telephony possible also put an end to the difficulties of transcontinental tel ephony. He is rated as one of the worlds foremost electrical scientists.
 It was to escape service in the army that Pupin fled to America. He had no dream of becoming a scientist then; he wanted only some peaceful occupation. When he landed in New York he did not have cent. Drifting from one job to another, he finally be- came farm hand in New York state. The daughter of the farm owner inter ested the Serbian lad in education; and Pupin went back to New York city determined to acquire learning. He worked as a masseuse in Turkish bath shop and in his spare hours stud jed at the night school of Cooper Union. He progressed so fast that when a friend obtained for him scholarship in Adelphia college he was able to hold his own with the other students. From Adelphia he went to Columbia university, then to Cam bridge and finally to the University of Berlin, where he studied under the German master scientists.
 He came back to America as a pro- lessor at Columbia university, but he was not content merely to teach; he at once turned to the practical use of his scientific knowledge. So valuable as an inventor is he that the Columbia authorities have an arrangement with him that when he wishes to devote his time to some invention he is not re- quired tC give any attention to univer- Sity work.
 The Serbian government several years ago acknowledged his services to humanity by making him honorary consul general to New York.