Book excerpt: Excerpt from Papers and Transactions for 1919 and Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting at New Haven, February 17 and 18, 1920 As a part Of the whole scheme, the Chief Signal Officer. Gen eral Squier, who 'had been our military attache in London and so had seen some of the workings in the early days of the war, realized that a research and development organization would be a very necessary part Of the whole scheme in the event of our having anything large to 'do. As the laboratories of the Bell system and of the Western Electric Company are the largest laboratories of their kind in the world, he commissioned a num ber of us there as officers of the Reserve 'c'orps, with the idea that in the event of hostilities we would be called into active service and they would practically commandeer those laboratories and turn them over into Signal Corps laboratories. That is how I came to be mixed up with the Signal Corps end of the work. I think I was the second Major in the Signal Corps called into active service, and I can well remember the funny feeling I had in putting on a uniform at a time when a uniform was a rarity in New York City; and when even the street car conductors refused to take our fares and the conductors on the railroads would not punch our commutation tickets. They got over that. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."