Michael Pupin.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
|---|---|---|
| I. | What I Brought to America | [1] |
| II. | The Hardships of a Greenhorn | [ 43] |
| III. | The End of the Apprenticeship as Greenhorn | [72] |
| IV. | From Greenhorn to Citizenship and CollegeDegree | [100] |
| V. | First Journey to Idvor in Eleven Years | [138] |
| VI. | Studies at the University of Cambridge | [167] |
| VII. | End of Studies at the University of Cambridge | [192] |
| VIII. | Studies at the University of Berlin | [218] |
| IX. | End of Studies at the University of Berlin | [247] |
| X. | The First Period of My Academic Career atColumbia University | [279] |
| XI. | The Rise of Idealism in American Science | [311] |
| XII. | The National Research Council | [349] |
| Index | [389] | |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| Michael Pupin | [Frontispiece] |
| Pupin’s Birthplace | FACING PAGE [4] |
| The Old Monument on Staro Selo | [4] |
| Olympiada Pupin, Mother of Michael Pupin | [10] |
| The Village Church in Idvor | [36] |
| Nassau Hall, Princeton University | [68] |
| An Early View of Cooper Union | [74] |
| Men of Progress—American Inventors | [78] |
| Photograph of Pupin Taken in 1883 | [136] |
| Joseph Henry | [204] |
| John Tyndall | [204] |
| Michael Faraday | [220] |
| Herman von Helmholtz | [232] |
| The Hertzian Oscillator | page [265] |
| Henry Augustus Rowland | [290] |
| James Clerk Maxwell | [290] |
| Electrical Discharges Representing Two Types of Solar Coronæ | [294] |
| Solar Corona of 1922 | [294] |
| Sir J. J. Thomson | [306] |
| Wilhelm Konrad Rœntgen | [306] |
| Pupin’s Residence at Norfolk, Conn. | [328] |
| Dr. George Ellery Hale, Honorary Chairman of the National Research Council | [372] |
| The National Research Council Building, Washington, D. C. | [372] |
| Facsimile of Letter from President Harding | page [386] |
FROM IMMIGRANT TO INVENTOR
I
WHAT I BROUGHT TO AMERICA
When I landed at Castle Garden, forty-eight years ago, I had only five cents in my pocket. Had I brought five hundred dollars, instead of five cents, my immediate career in the new, and to me a perfectly strange, land would have been the same. A young immigrant such as I was then does not begin his career until he has spent all the money which he has brought with him. I brought five cents, and immediately spent it upon a piece of prune pie, which turned out to be a bogus prune pie. It contained nothing but pits of prunes. If I had brought five hundred dollars, it would have taken me a little longer to spend it, mostly upon bogus things, but the struggle which awaited me would have been the same in each case. It is no handicap to a boy immigrant to land here penniless; it is not a handicap to any boy to be penniless when he strikes out for an independent career, provided that he has the stamina to stand the hardships that may be in store for him.