The Engineering Extension.
The annex to the Engineering
Building which has been donated by
certain alumni and friends of the in-
stitution, is fast nearing completion.
It is located just to the rear of the
President's house. The building is
a frame structure, two stories high
and one hundred and sixty by forty
three feet, and will be finisned in
side with iron walls and ceilings.
On the first floor the building will
house the electrical laboratories. At
the upper end, not far from the Beta
Theta Pi fraternity, will be tele
phone engineering and general elec
trical testing. Next to this will be
the direct current and alternat
ing current laboratories, then lighting
and railways Finally at the end
near the locomotive shed will be
found electrochemical engineering;
in this department are arranged
rooms for laboratory testing, balan
ces, buffing, plating, furnaces,
conductivity measurements, etc.
On the second floor will be found
the principal office of the Depart
ment of Electrical Engineering, and
a class room at the north end; the
remainder of the floor is given over
to drawing for freshmen and sonno
mores. Then drawing rooms will
be exceptionally well fitted up and
lighted and will help to provide for
the serious crowding in the Engi
neering Department.
In addition to the equipment
which has previous to this year been
installed in the electrical labora
tories, there will be found in the new
building the following: a rotary con
verter exactly like the one now in
use; two large station transformers
for power and testing purposes;
three small test transformers; four
induction motors; one 2200 volt, 50
ampere feed regulator; one variable
speed motor; two small shunt gen
erators; two small shunt motors;
one electrolytic 1000 to 500 ampere
generator; two 30 K. W. 2300 volt
60 cycle synchronous motors for
THE STATE COLLEGIAN
driving purposes; two potential and
two current transformers; 36 stand
ard measuring ins ruments; volt
meters, ammeters and wattmeters;
a tht ee element oscillograph; and a
number of pieces of amaratus for
electrochemical engineer ing.
It is hoped that this building will
be in readiness for service not later
tnan the opening of the winter term.
The building will undoubtedly prove
of much worth to the present over
crowded condition in the engineer
ing department,though it is merely a
temporary measure pending more
adequate provision for the recent
great expansion in our engineering
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What State Chemists are Doing.
About one chemist in every fifty
in the United States received his
training at The Pennsylvania State
College. If this claim is not inac
curate, and it is based on the best
information available, we may
believe that our College is a
factor of no mean significance in
the production of this class of work
ers in the field of American indus
try. The Department of Chemistry
does not strive to turn out 'large
numbers or graduates. though it
may be not witho..lt interest to note
that it stands fourth in the list, only
three other departments having
graduated more men, and no course
having turned out twice as many
graduates, trom the beginning of the
College down to the present day. As
a school of Chemistiy,therefore, the
Pennsylvania State College has its
place among American institutions
of learning.
State College chemists are widely
scattered throughout the Unite°
States, from Maine to California and
from Michigan to Texas. Accord
ing to occupations they are divided
as follows :
Iron and steel 22%; other meal
lurgical industries, 10%; teaching
and experiment work, 13%; busi
ness, 7%; electrical industries, 4%;
leather, 5%; dynamite and other ex
plosives, 8%; drugs, medicine and
food work, 5%; pulp and paper,
4%; oil, gas and coal, 5%; miscel
laneous, ineuding cement, assaying,
wood products, journalism, railroad
worx, paints, insurance, promoting,
general manufacture, analytical and
consulting work, geological survey,
phosphates, carbide, insu'ating ma
terials, and retired, 17%. Total,
100%.
G F. Merris, 'O7, who has been
in Logansport, Indiana, is spending
a few days with his wife and friends.
Dr. Frank Pond, '92, of Stevens
Institute, New York. will give an
illustrated lecture on Methods of Gas
Manufacture, before Berzelius
Chemical Society, on Friday even
ing. Dec. 13.
Skating Rink
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for announcement
of opening of rink
and attractions
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