In Kanpur, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, in India, there are six or eight American families whose heads are helping to bring into being the new Indian Institute of Technology. They discovered that the local telephone system couldn't provide them with telephones. The husbands set to work to provide short-wave-radio communication between the American dwellings, but the plan bogged down. Then one of the wives proposed that a boy be hired, equipped with a bicycle, & put into a more or less continuous orbit from house to house. This system has proved more reliable than short-wave radio, and cheaper than telephones. It has the added advantage of permitting books & other packages to be sent over it at no additional cost. We're told that the first message sent by the lady inventor to the other householders was "What hath God wrought?"
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