Max Wiener is mechanical consultant for New York’s newest radio station, WNEW, with studios at Newark, Paterson and the city. His appointment marks a milestione in a brilliant career which reads something like a Horatio Alger story.
According to a rumor Wiener received at the age of thirteen a small radio which he played around with and which taught him the simple mechanies of its construction and operation. Through the positions which he subsequently held Max Wiener applied himself with the classic sacrifice of the Alger hero. He studied by candie-light. He never attended other than public schools.
At nineteen he was considered somewhat of a mechanical prodigy, building the complete mechanical oufit of radio station WODA in Paterson. He disciplined himself in allied mathematical arts, and mastered trigonometry and calculus. A pleasing voice qualified him as an announcer and he became an nouncer-mechanic for the station.
Twenty-one years of age, Max Wiener was appointed wireless operator on a Clyde steamer and on large boats for other companies.
The young man is married and has two daughters but his self-discipline has not been suspended there by. He is considered a success in his field of enterprise, but by no means has he decided to sit back and take it easy.
Wiener is now engaged in studying more advanced mathematies and engineering evenings; and by himself.
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