The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-22
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 l. Pupin, who came to
America in 1874 a penniless Serbian
immigrant, according to the Kansas
City Times. His inventions already
have netted him $1,OOO,OOO and his
most recent one probably will bring
him in sum running into the hun.
bred 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
wireless message through for days
and during portions of almost every
day transmission is out Of the Ques-
ton.
ago that he believed he had solved
the problem. Recently he stated that
he had perfected his device and now
knew that it would meet all require
inents. The value of his invention in
time cf war is tremendous, as it would
give the side possessing it great adj
vantage over its foes. For that rea-
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-
TEN Of ocean telephony. He received
100000 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 q 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
to acquire learning. He
worked as a masseuse in a Turkish
oath shop and in his spare hours stud
ed at the night school Of Cooper
Union. He progressed so fast that
when friend obtained for him q
in Adelphia college he was
lble to hold his own with the other
Students. From Adelphia he went to
university, then to Cam
ridge and finally to the University Of
Berlin, where he studied under the
herman master scientists. i;
He came back to America as q pro- s
essor at Columbia university, but he |
Vas not content merely to teach; he {
{ once turned to the practical use Of j.,
ID scientific knowledge. So valuable ,
. an inventor is he that the Columbia
uthorities have an arrangement with .
I'm that when he wishes to devote his +
Inc to some invention he is not 10.
uired to give any attention to univer-
lty work.
The Serbian government several :,
ears ago acknowledged his services
humanity by making him honorary
onsul general to New York. il