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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1909.
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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,
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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
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