The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-01-27
NOTED LECTURER
TELLS Of " D Rk
IN ELECTRICITY
John Mills, First Long
Distance Wireless Tele-
phone User, Addresses
University Students.

UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, Mos
COW, Jan. 25.-John Mills, one of
Americas leading electrical engineers,
the author OF several technical books
dealing with the development of the
present system OF radio and telephone
communication, addressed the stu
dents and faculty of the college of en-
cheering of the University of Idaho,
this afternoon. His subject was The
Vacuum Tube and its Application.
Mr.. Mills had the distinction of be-
ing the first person whose voice was
carried through the ether across land
and sea from Washington to Honolulu
when radio telephony reached an adj
vance stage in 1915. He is assistant
personnel manager of the engineering
department of the Western Electric
company, the research branch of the
Bell system. AT the present time he
is visiting the leading technical So
cieties and educational institutions of
the country. giving a course OF lee
lures under the auspices of the Amer
lean Institute of Electrical Engineers.
Before the local sections of the in
stitute, Mr. Mills talked on THE HUI
ma nVoice and its Electrical Trans
mission" The lecture was illustrated
by demonstration experiments, by Ian
tern slides, and by moving pictures and
described recent studies of the voice
and of its action on the human ear
which have been made by the research
physicists of the Western Electric
company and of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph company.
Luncheons are being arranged at
several cities where Mr.. Mills will give
more informal talk dealing with the
subject of his last book, Within the |
Atom" which tells the modern views |
as to the stuff and motive power of
our universe. AS assistant personnel
manager of the engineering department
of the Western Electric company he
describes the methods by which his
concern recruits, maintains and de-
velops its highly-trained technical
staff.
Mr.. Mills was born and educated in |
Chicago, graduating in 1901 from the |
University of Chicago. He studied as |
graduate student at Chicago, at the
University of Nebraska, and later at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
He was an instructor in physics and |
electrical engineering, for some years
at the Western Reserve University of
Cleveland, and at Colorado college.
He is the author of several books, in
GLIDING college text on physics which /
was written jointly with Professor R.
A. Millikan, a text on radio communi-
cation which was widely used during
the war, and more recently a popular
description of modern ideas as to mat
ter and energy, book dealing with the
ultramicroscopic electron.
In 1911 Mr.. Mills gave up teaching
to enter the engineering department of /
the Bell system. He was one of the |
engineers under Colonel J. J. Carly
who developed the transcontinental
telephone system between New York
and San Francisco, which was opened
for service in 1914. Also, as an en-
gineer under Colonel Carly and later
under DR.. F. B. Jewett of the West
ern Electric company, Mr.. Mills was
concerned with the 1915 demonstration
of radio telephony between Washing
ton, d. c., and points like Paris and
Honolulu.