page_title: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
section_title: History of the Association
hierarchical_section_title: Worcester Polytechnic Institute / Campus life / Wireless Association (W1YK) / History of the Association
caption_attribution_description: CHarter of affiliation of Worcester Polytechnic Institute Wireless Association with the American Radio Relay League
context_page_description: Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts, focusing on the instruction and research of technical arts and applied sciences.
  Founded in 1865 in Worcester, WPI was one of the United States' first engineering and technology universities and now has 14 academic departments with over 50 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science, engineering, technology, management, the social sciences, and the humanities and arts, leading to bachelor's, master's and PhD degrees. WPI's faculty works with students in a number of research areas, including biotechnology, fuel cells, information security, surface metrology, materials processing, and nanotechnology.
context_section_description: The WPI Wireless Association is regarded as the first College Amateur Radio Club to be on the air. Founded in 1909, by Oliver B. Jacobs and a group of 40 other men, the club has a historically significant role in the early age of wireless communications both in the United States and the world. The Wireless Association was one of the first 12 stations heard by Paul Godely, an American who went to Scotland to conduct the first Transatlantic Tests, when stations in America and Scotland tried to hear each other across the Atlantic Ocean.
caption: Charter of affiliation of the Wireless Association with the ARRL (1920).
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