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RADIO
ol. 6, No. 4
February.
How Michael Pupin Succeeded
A Story Which Reads Almost Like a Chapter From Horatio Alger, Jr.— The History of "Immigrant to Inventor," Whose Electrical Inventions Have Greatly Aided Radio, the Cables, and Telephony
BY MYRA MAY
STURDY, dark-haired boy, clad in a summer suit of clothes and wearing a red Turkish fez, crept close to a stack on an ocean liner during apar
gicularly cold March crossing to America in
i ^74. He was a queer figure, this youngster of
Ijfteen, minus the traditional mattress and
Blanket of the immigrant, with no friends or
family aboard and only the warm smoke stack
for company.
I Yet he kept his courage, although he had
jwily five cents in his
Socket, when he
funded at Castle Gar
j|en, at the Battery,
fS'ew York. The ge
j|ial sunshine, the ac
•vity in the harbor,
jtshe swarms of people,
.l|ll thawed out his
loneliness and augured that he had
peached the land of
Opportunity. When
%c left the ship, he
Bought a prune pie
|rom a vendor. The
»ie, however, proved a
Siarc and a delusion.
"The more boys work with their apparatus, the more knowledge of the science of electricity they will obtain and the more will their interest in the marvels of radio be aroused. Radio is the coming science and if its disciples attain as much practical experience and grounding in electrical principles as is possible to crowd into their lives, they can be sure of making progress." — PROFESSOR PUPIN.
It was filled with prune pits instead of the actual prunes. Having spent his entire capital, he nonchalantly strolled up Broadway. So Michael Pupin, now professor of electromechanics at Columbia University, and widely known as the inventor of the Pupin coil, entered America.
He had run away from home. Back in Hungary, he had been known as a bright boy who had too easily absorbed the nationalistic theories of the radicals and so had been transferred from his own local school to Prague. There, disgusted with the military spirit of the academy, he decided to run away to America. It was a sudden decisionThere was no time to write home and discuss the plan, but time only to hurry to Hamburg where an immigrant ship bound for America sailed. To supplement his scanty funds, he sold his warm clothing,