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yw, r.. " 1wSfW "Y'T'",VT Tr - "-V flJ-piBf l?"W&"qSf rJBjtyBfi fl" Vf'i V u tf'- !(!))..( fcCfrJM ENGINEERS' EDfTION .WWii. 2 r . " M ft, -SftTl e TIbe ail? i.i&,yA Vot VIII. No. 72. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1909. Price 5 Cent wbraekan ',, -l.fc. f A I v. TO EQLALTtlE BEST ENGINEERING LABORATORY TO BE PRIDE OF CAMPU8. RIGHT EQUIPMENT EVERYWHERE Professor Richards Tells of Plans for New Building and How Work Is Progressing Now Ready Next Fall. (By Pror. R. C. Richards) The now mechanical engineering laboratory,. work upon which was com menced In May of last year, Is ox , -"fepected to bo ready for- ubo by tho opening of school In the fall. The brick work has been nearly finished, and all the remaining work will be ruBhed aB rapidly ob the weather will permit The building is of brick, tho ex terior being faced with "flash," or "Iron spot," pressed brick, with terra cotta trimmings to match. The cor nice 1b to bo of copper, and the roof qf red tile. The style of architecture is a modified Roman-Doric, giving an appearance of great masslveness, in spite of the unusual area of window surfact Oho of the principal require ments In a satisfactory laboratory building is an adequate supply of light, so, In designing the building the writer has provided an abundance of daylight in all the rooms, and at the same timo has planned a particularly effective system of artificial lighting. The front part of. the building con tains twp stories and a high basement, while the roar portion consists of Iwo symmetrical one-story wings with monitor roofs. Tho floors are to bo of reinforced concrete, having several novel features of design, planed for a live load of 260 pounds per square foot in, all the laboratories. Tho floor slabs 'are carried by steel beam and columns. Tho concrete floors In tho halls, offices, lecture rooms, and sev eral of the laboratories are surfaced with wood. Tho stairs aro of iron throughout. In all of the hallways there will bo a wainscoting of white enameled brick. Tho laboratory walls will bo of brick with four coats' of oil paint, and tho halls, lecture roomB and drawing room will be plastered and tinted. Power Laboratory. The basement will contain a large power transmission laboratory (54x87 feet) for experimental work, with belt and rope drives, etc., transmission dynamometers, oil testing machines and other transmission apparatus; the plenum room for the ventilating machinery, and a portion of tho hydraulic laboratory containing the pumping machinery, cistern, weighing tanks, 'etc., required for the experi mental work In hydraulics. Tho first floor contains tho steam, 'gas and hydraulic laboratory and tho machine, tool, foundry and forging laboratories, together with offices, a large lavatory and, a tool and stack room for the whole building. Tho Becond floor, contains the wood work ing laboratory, two lecture rooms, a drawing room, offices and store rooms. , Tho steam, gas and hydraulic labor atory 1b a room 76x87 feet, which1, will contain the various experimental steam engines, gas engines, gas pro ducers,, air compressors and a refrig erating machine wltti auxiliary -apparatus for routine work and for re search. The hydraulic equipment, will consist of a steel pressure tank 5 foot n diameter by 35' feet high, to carry 200 pounds water pressure, main tained -by .motor driven turbine pumps, haying a total pumping capacity of 800 gallons per minute, against 100 pounds pressure, or 400- gallons per tninute against 200 'pounds pressure, a; 'paifof largo reinforced concrete weir tanks with such auxiliary apparatus as will bo needed for tostlng work. In tho laboratory the Btudont will bo come familiar with tho design, con struction, operating and testing of the various lines of machinery Installed, will dotormno tho relation of thoory to practice and will bo enabled to do research work which may add to tho total of our engineering knowledge. Metal Working Machinery. In the machine tool laboratory the Btudent will bo Instructed In the de sign and operation of the various kinds of metal working machinery, and in tho methods of working the different materials of engineering. The room Is 54x87 feet, divided into three "bays" by rows of columns. The two outer bays will contain the ma chine toolB, while tho center bay will serve as an erecting floor. It will bo spanned by a traveling crane for handling heavy work. The foundry laboratory provides for the careful study of the several pro cesses of molding and tho casting of metals of different kinds. The student will become familiar with tho neces sary features of machinery design re quired to secure economy and strength when mado of cast iron or brass. The main molding room is 44x60 feet; it will contain tho various appliances for bench and floor molding, a pair of brass furnaces, etc. Thoroom will bo spanned by a five-ton traveling crane, for heavy work. The core room or foundry annex (30x50 feet) will contain a pair of cupola furnaces with an elevated charging platform of rein- forced concrete, to which material will bo raised by a hydraulic elevator. The room will also contain the coro benches, core ovens, etc. Tho forging laboratory (44x60 feet) will contain thirty-five down draft forges with a power blower and ex haust fan. Tho room will also con tain a Bteam hammer, punch and shear and other forging tools and machinery to illustrate the proper methods of working iron and steel, and to afford means for determining tho effect of forging operations on the various properties of these metals. The Wood Working. In the wood working laboratory (54x87 feet) instruction is given In tho processes, tools and machines re quired for working In wood. The' stu dent hero becomes familiar with 'the various intricate problems of joining, wood turning and particularly of pat torn-making, and with tho adaptability of wood to tho different branches, of mechanical construction. This, labor atory will contain forty benches and forty, lathes, with Various f machines required In, pattern-making. In addition to tho laboratories de scribed, there will, bo a fine drawing room, 22x65 feet an assembly room (Continued on Page 6.) OCCUPY HIGH PLACE NEBRASKA ENGINEER8 BIG FAC TOR IN ATHLETIC8. SIX 1908 FOOTBALL "N" MEN Had Over Half of Numeral Players on Last Season's Baseball Team Walsh Is Captain of the Basket-ball Five. Lacking JiiBt one man from having half of the 'varsity football team among their numbers, and with a half man to Bparo In passing .tho fifty por cent line in baBoball, tho ongineors of tho university took a loading placo In nthlotics during 1008. Six of the fourteen men awarded "N"s for work under Coach Colo were engineers and flvo of the nine members of tho base ball squad of last spring woro also registered in that college. On the other hand, the engineers had not a single man In track work who mado an "N" and only one In basket-ball. Hnrvoy, Chaloupka, Harto, Johnson, Bentley, and Blrkner aro tho list of embryo engineers who mado tho foot ball team last season. Every ono of these men played a good, consistent game throughout tho season and did honor to tho unlvorslty and to their college as well; J. B. Harvoy, 1908, as captain of the 'varsity, makes good the title of the ongineors to at .least their -share' of such offices. Westover, . t"Ht -..7 j' v ' , ("- -Xi"" L Tktik ?7m.L ' ) L W -vOii J Tmft 1 5& DOING THE REAL WORK Wellor, and Cy Mason woro among his predecessors at tho head of the Corn husker elevens who were enrolled in the engineering section of the indus trial college during their stay in school. ' . Harvey Is One. But Harvey deserves' to be men tioned in the annals of tho engineers' football record for other things in ad dition to his mere holding of the office of captain. He. has been a play er as well as a commander. Although for two years ho was unable to con vince Coach "Bummy" Booth that ho had the real stuff in him, he made the team with the comjng of Colo and ho has since mado good In sensational style. The general character' of his work at Tight end won the highest commendation. Ho tackled well on most occasions and his work inter ference was ono of the strong points of tho Cornhusker teanvwhilo he was on It' He had a tenacity which did not. give up until the very end of. tho game and this quality was ono valued by followers ot Nebraska's fortune on the gridiron. "Bill" Chalovpka, right tackle for 1908 aad preceding seasons, was named on the all-western by various selections. His work in tho Amos Nobraska gamos of 1007 and 1008 was characteristic. In both gamos thoro camo momonts whon tho scarlot and cream held tho ball and a gain wati uocossary on tho noxt down if it waB not to bo loBt. It happonod at somo tltnos that tho backflold was woarlod from continued, hard work and thon it bocamo necessary for tho lino to carry tho ball. In both tho Amos games Chaloupka was sovoral tlmos given tho ball at this critical timo. Almost without oxcopllon ho mado good, advancing tho ball for tho re quisite distance or moro. His work was probably moro notlcoablo In tho 1008 contest at Omaha, whoro ho wob usod to great advantago -in tho fow heartbreaking minutes jUBt prior to tho entrance of Cooko into tho game. Bentley Another. In tho Ames contest last fall anoth or playor who showed up well, at tracting must favorable mention for hiB smooth running of tho toam, waB Bentley. Bontloy was substitute quar terback for the Cornhuskors through out tho season and was given sovoral opportunities to prove his worth. v Ho did well at Iowa and his work was of a superior class at Omaha. In that gamo ho did ovorything possible to gain a victory for tho scarlet and cream and ho wfes displaced only in the' last few minutes 'when Coach Cole relieved him in hopes that fresh ma-, terial in tho form of "Pip" Cooko might win tho game. Bentley will be in school noxt year unless his plans aro changed and there Is no doubt but that he will be the regular quarter for tho 1009 eleven. His work is characterized by smoothness rather than by the spec tacular. Another man on the Ames-Nebraska 1908 muster-roll is Louis Harte, who limped into the gamo yrtth a scarcely well sprained anklo and played a steady n game throughout This year was Harto's first on tho varsity, but he may bo depended upon to make good in the future to an eyen better degree than he did last fall. His po sition is right guard. Blrkner at right half and JohnBon at left end were two other engineers who did good' work. Neithur ia spec tacular In his plays although Blrkner oqcasslonally woke 'the rooters up with a good punt In his department ot tho game ho substituted for Belt- In Baseball'. Carroll, Dudgeon, Clark, HetzeJ and Schleuter are the five engineers on last spring's baseball team. Dudgeon played, second base, and Hetsel was , (Continued on Pafje 7.) WHAT GRADUATES DO PROFE880R MORSE TELLS THE NEBRASKA MEN. OF THOSE FROM THE UNIVERSITY The Number of Electrical Engineering 8tudents Given 8heepsklns Each Year Averages Twenty-five - This Is a Great Increase. (By Prof, G. H. Morso) Tho profoBBlonal standing of grad uates of tho olectrlcal onginooring de partment is brought rathor forcefully and somowhnt amusingly to mind through tho froquoncy with which tho department flndB itself thrown into strictly commercial corrospondonco with Ub own alumni, acting in thoir several capacities for electrical man ufacturing corporations, For example, a comparative tost of induotion mo tors which was rocontly made by the department for a certain central sta tion managor in Nebraska has elicited from tho Gonoral Bloctric company at Schenectady cortaln criticism, Mr. Mo Dowoll, U. of N. '04, acting as the corresponding ongineor for that com pany. Also cortaln departmental investiga tions bearing upon tho development of incandescent lamps, having reachod tho notlco of tho Buckoyo Lamp Com pany of Clovoland, ono of tho largest producers, caused tho manager, Mr. Lcroy Sawyer, B. B. '99, to dispatch a special envoy from Chicago to look into the matter hero. Graduates In Business. In inquiring about oloctrical machin ery" prdposod for tho department it is a common occurronco to find the matter-taken up at the manufacturer's end by 'some ono of the graduates, among whom may bo mentioned "P. A. Morse, '99, sales managor 'Western Electric Co., St Louis"; W.L. Stock ton, '93, Agency Supervise Sales Dopt. WeBtorn Bloctric Co., Chicago; E. A. Bossoy, E. E. '98, Engineer' in Instru ment Dopt, General Electric Co., Great Barrington, Mass., and Morris N. Llebman, E. E. '00, Manager Foote Pierson Co., New York. In this con nection should bo mentioned tho cour tesy recently extended to tho depart mont through E. H Haughton, E. B. '95, General Manager of tho Bryan Marsh Co., who sent the department an exquisitely mounted set of sped- mens representing tho progress of in candescent lamps from raw material to the finished product. Through the influence of Mr. i1 B. Hurtz, E. E. '03, General Manager of the Lincoln Telephone Co., wo re cently received o a very costly work ing exhibit of the automatic 'telephone system. v.,' It is not in tho commercial field alone, howovorf that the electrical engineer graduates aro. found holding Important positions; four ol.ttier U. of N. electrical engineering graduates are to be found acting' as professors in chargo of departments in reputable engineering schools, namely Herbert S. Evans, E. E. '01, Professor of Elec trical Engineering at the. University of Colorado! & A.' Skinner,' '93, Pro fessor of Phjrsics at tho University of Nebraska; O..J. Ferguson, '03, Profes sor of, Electrical Engineering at Un ion College, and A. B. Smith, E. E. '01, Professor, of Telephony at Purdue University. We may also mention in the instructional field X.' B. Shane, E. E. '01, Assistant Professor of Eleo- -trical Engineering in Iowa State Col lege; E. E. Brackett, -B, B., 01, In structor in Electrical Engineering In the University of Pennsylvania, an-d H. B. Noyes, E. E. '04, Instructor n (Continued on Page 5.) s iii n .i r ,. .-J&'itJL W,. .fo.' .' a, vaJ.-i.,, . ..-'Wi- -t.'"''Mtfit & "W-- i - v, . if J 4t' a a j.H rl f h .X