Brown and White Vol. 8 no. 46

              lehigh university south bethlehem pa saturday april 13 1901 electrical engineering vol vei a complete description of the building and its equipment the new physical laboratory no 46 calendar commemoration issue the brown and white saturday april 13 — base ball le high vs n v university at le high field sunday april 14 — at 9.30 a m bible study class in christ mas hall at 6.15 p.m — meeting of the christian association in christ mas hall monday april 15 — at 4.30 p m base ball practice at 4.30 p.m track team practice at 5.00 p.m lacrosse practice tuesday april 16 — at 4.00 p.m in chemical laboratory lec ture by professor macfarlane subject sir william rowan hamilton 1805 1865 wednesday april 17 — base ball lehigh vs princeton at prince ton saturday april 20 — base ball lehigh vs pennsylvania at franklin field notices lectures to seniors professor merriman will give six lectures on specifications and contracts to the sen ior civil engineers on mondays at 10.30 a m all members of the senior class are invited to attend titles of the lec tures are as follows : april 15 business customs april 22 patent law and practice april 29 essential elements of a con tract may 6 bidders and contractors may 13 technical clauses in specifica tions may 20 business clauses in specifica tions lecture sketch of its progress since establishment seventeen years ago or in the year 1884-85 a special one year course in electricity was added to the curriculum of the university and was placed in charge of pro fessor h w harding and instruc tor h s houskeeper the physical and electrical laborator ies were at that time on the first and fourth floors of packer hall this position was held by the de partment until 1886-7 when the department of physics was moved into saucon hall in 1888 the one year course in electrical engi neering was abandoned and a four year course established in 18-89 another instructor r o heimrich was added to the teaching foree — and in 1890 still another what is known now as the old physical laboratory was begun in 1892 mr a hutton of philadel phia was the architect the de partments of physics and electrical engineering moved into this build ing in 1893 beginning work with the classes in septem ber of the same year the instructors at that time were pro fessors h w hard ing h s hous keeper geo wendle and h t atticks in 1 896 professor harding retired and professor alexander macfarlane hadcharge of the electrical de partment shortly after this professor franklin took charge and is still at the head of the department the description of the physical labora tory before it was de stroyed by fire last year is as follows : the building was o stone 235 feet long and four stories high the use of iron was avoided ; the gas anc steam mains and pipes radiators etc were all of brass on the first floor was the dynamo laboratory the workshop the bat tery room and research rooms for thesis work the dynamo labora tory was provided with a 50 horse power steam engine and was well equipped with electrical machinery and measuring instruments in the workship a 6 horse-power electric motordrove three lathes.a drill-press an emery grinder and a buzz saw and an 80-cell storage battery was installed in the battery room un der this floor was the cave or even temperature room completley enclosed with solid stone masonry continuod on s#eon4 ?*»•.) professor macfar lane will deliver the third lecture of the series on tuesday april 16 at 4.00 p.m in the chemical labor atory tickets may be obtained at the office from mr ashbaugh economic society there will be a meeting of the economic society on tuesday evening april 16 at 7.15 p.m in saucon hall there are now 129,204 men and women in the united states attend ing universities and colleges this is a little over 2 per cent of the entire population on april 6 1900 the physical laboratory was destroyed by fire together with much of the appara tus but the exertions of professor franklin and his assistants were immediately directed toward replac ing the building and with such effect that the new laboratory designed by mr herman schneider lehigh 94 is much superior to the old one both in construction and in equipment the new building which stands on the old foundations is 235 feet long by about 50 wide and the major part is fireproof that is the floors are of concrete laid on steel i4?eams ? the remainder being of continued on se«q»4 p»(jw fire-resisting construction consist ing of three-inch planks supported by heavy floor-beams a layer of asbestos resting on this floor and a one-inch hard-wood flooring being placed over all there is a central stairway of iron and fire-escapes are located at convenient points in compliance with the underwriters rules at the we-tern end of the first floor are the shop and the dynamo laboratory the former containing two lathes a circular saw and a drill-press together with several emery wheels grindstones and other small apparatus the dynamo professor w s franklin