Bemus Point High School - Pointer Yearbook (Bemus Point, NY)

Page 33 text:

THE-POINTER-BEMUS POINT, N. Y. 31 SHOP NOTES There are 26 boys that are taking shop from the Vocational teacher, Mr. David W. Dorman. Mr. Dorman says that the boys do fine work and several of them have exceptional abilities in regards to the things that they accom- plish. The boys think that Mr. Dorman also is well adapted to the task that hc is undertaking, that is teaching a bunch of novices how to use tools and how to make furniture. Some of the things that the wood working department has turned out seem to prove that most any boy can use tools if he has a chance. Those taking wood working are: Bill Cheney, George Colby, Laurence Carl- son, Thomas Van Wert, Gilbert French, Clayton Stearns, Orvin Crandall, Roy Kesby, Robert Miller, Walter Rhinehart, Vance Berdine, Carl Stowell, Nor- man Ingerson, Merle Slater, Robert Hallberg, Clayton Hellgren and Ira Hel- gren. Some of the class are working on Taborets, End tables, sewing cabinets, book-ends, baseball bats, pedestals and various other projects. Also Mr. Dorman has several boys from the 8th grade who are making door stops in the form of cats, and these boys are: James Russ, Walter Russ, 4'Half-pinti' Donald Traynor, and Fred Paddock. Some of the most outstanding projects are: Adelbert Slater's radio cabinet in which he plans to install a short wave. regular broadcast, and a television receiver: Norman Stearns' library table, Art Ingerson's cedar chest, Mark Pickard's porch swing, George Colby's smoking cabinet, and Gilbert French's record cabinet. In the Electricity department there are 7 boys all of whom are accom- plishing a great deal. They are, Hugh Sample, Norman Stearns, Art Inger- son, Adelbert Slater, Mark Pickard, Stuart Russ, and Ralph Webb. The plates which were used in the making of the Pointer this year were done by members of the Bemus Point High School. The Jamestown Print- ing Concern kindly furnished the tools which were used. The members who helped in the making of the plates are as follows: Leslie Ward-School Front Page. Julia Rodier-Seniors and Literary. Sherman Barons-Activities. Olive Crandell-Classes. Hugh Sample-Sport. Clayton Sterns-Faculty.

Page 32 text:

30 THE POINTER-BEMUS POINT, N Y Donald Traynor Walter liuss James Russ Melvin Swanson Robert Hallberg Orvil Crandall Merle Slater Walter Rhinehart Stuart Russ Mark Pickard SHOP CLASSES Carl Stowell Gilbert French Norman Stearns Adelbert Slater Robert Miller Norman Ingersoll Clayton Stearns William Cheney Ralph Webb George Colby Arthur Ingerson Lawrence Carlson Clayton Helgren Ira Helgren Clarence Berdine Jens Sturup Thomas Van Wert Hugh Sample Davitl Dorman--3l'c'acln'r

Page 34 text:

32 THE POINTER-BEMUS POINT, N. Y. THE DEVELOPMENT OF RADIO ADIO as we know it today is not the invention of any one person, of any small number of persons. It is rather the accumu- lation of the results of the experiments, thoughts and practice of a large num- ber of individuals, each stimulated to make his contribution to a sum total of knowledge. Radio communication has evolved from beginnings embedded to one of the most far-reaching and sociologically significant of modern industrial activities. It has become a means of communication which is employed for almost every conceivable purpose from the business affairs of the financier to the amusement of children. As an industry it now gives em- ployment to about 200,000 persons in the United States alone, and as a ser- vice it counts among its direct daily beneficiaries perhaps a third of our population. Throughout the early and middle portions of the Nineteenth Century workers in physics were learning some of the fundamental facts regarding the behavior of electric currents. Among these workers were some outstand- ing physicists such as Ampere, Volta, and Faraday. The fundamental work of these men, led Clark Maxwell, an English mathematician, in 1873 to the conclusion that high-frequency alternating currents flowing in a circuit would give rise to electric waves in the surrounding space. These waves are the waves now used in radio communication, and their existence was first experi- mentally detected by a German physicist, Heinrich Hertz, in 1887. Perhaps the most important step from the experimental use of high-f re- quency electric currents to the practical employment of these methods in long distance radio communication was the adoption of a ground connection, thus making use of the earth as one portion of the transmission circuit. This was done by Marconi and others a few years before the beginning of the Twentieth Century. At about that time, also a device was developed which would detect the presence in a receiving circuit of high-frequency currents far too well to produce a spark. This was the coherer devised by Branly, which consisted of fine metal filings loosely packed in a small glass tube. From that time on extended studies were made by many workers in an effort to develop a more sensitive receiving or detecting device. Among the devics subsequently de- veloped were the various types of magnetic, electrolytic, and crystal detectors. The use of the electric arc as a means for converting direct current into high-frequency alternating current, developed in 1902, was a great step to- ward the generation of radio waves which are much less productive of inter- ference. Most of the high-power radio stations engaged in transoceanic communication, up to about 1915, employed this type of transmitter, and these stations are still in use.