Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Technique Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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18 TECHNIQUE Vol. XVIII y i«-(t- oCc GAETANO LANZA, C.E., Professor of Theoretical and Ap- plied Mechanics; in charge of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. «r Instructor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1871-72; As- sistant Professor, 1872-75; Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from 1875; also in charge of Department of Mechanical Engineering from 1883. Author of Applied Mechanics (i885 , and of many papers in Transactions American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Proceed- ings Society of Arts, Proceedings British Institution of Civil Engineers, Technology Quarterly, etc. Notes on Mechanical Engineering( 18861. Notes on Friction (18871, etc. Residence, 22 West Cedar Street GEORGE F. SWAIN, S.B., M. Am. Soc. C. E., Hayward Professor of Civil Engineering. M. I. T., ' 77, I. «rStudent in Germany, 1877-80; Expert on Tenth U.S. Census, 1880-83; Instiuctor in Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1881-83; Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, 1883-87; Associate Professor, 1887-88; Professor from 1888; Engi- neer of Massachusetts Railroad Commissioners from 1887; Member Boston Transit Commission since 1894; ex-President Boston Society of Civil Engineers; ex-President of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education; Director American Society of Civil Engi- neers, 1901-04. Author of Report on Water Power of Atlantic Slope, Notes on Hydraulics and on Theory of Structures, numerous reports on Rail- road Bridges, Brake Equipment and other subjects, in the reports of the Massachusetts Railroad Commission, and many papers on Engi- neering subjects, published in the Transactions of American Society Civil Engineers, Proceedings New England Water Works Association, Technology Quarterly, Proceedings Society Arts, Journal Franklin Institute, Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies, etc. Residence, 435 Marlboro Street r Jc FRANCIS W. CHANDLER, H. M. Am. Inst. Arch., Professor of Architecture. HfWith Messrs. Ware Van Brimt, Architects, 1864-66; Student in Paris, 1866-68; Assistant with Professor Ware at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1869; Assistant Supervising Architect at Washington, 1870-73; in partnership with Mr. E. C. Cabot of Bos- ton, 1873-88; Professor of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from 1888; Advisory Architect to the Mayor of the City of Boston since 1896; Member of Art Commission, City of Boston; Honorary Member of American Institute of Architecture. Author of A Few Hints About Drainage 1 18881, Construction Details (1892 ' , Notes on Limes, Cements, Mortars and Concretes (18921; editor of Municipal Architecture in Boston (1898), etc. Residence, 195 Marlboro Street

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1904 TECHNIQUE J7 ROBERT H. RICHARDS, S.B., Professor of Mining Engi- neering and Metallurgy. M. I. T., ' 68, III. «» Assistant in Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1868-69; Instructor in Assaying and Qualitative Analysis, 1869-70; Assistant Professor of Analytical Chemistry, 1870-71; Professor of Mineralogy and Assaying, in charge of the Mining and Metallurgical Laboratories, 1871-72; Professor of Mining Engineering, 1873-84; Secretary of the Faculty, 1878-83; Professor of Mining Engineering and Metallurgy, from 1884; President of the M. I. T. Alumni Asso- ciation, 1873-76; President of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 1886-87. Residence, 32 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain WILLIAM H. NILES, S.B., Pli.B., A.M., Professor of Geol- ogy and Geography, Emeritus. »r Professor of Physical Geography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1871; Professor of Geology and Geography, Massachu- setts Institute of Technology, from 1878; Lecturer on Geology, Wel- lesley College, 1882; Professor of Geology, Wellesley College, 1888; President of the Boston Society of Natural History, 1892-97; Presi- dent of the Appalachian Mountain Club, 1898. Author of Agency of Glaciers in the Excavation of Valleys and Lake Basins, Zones of Physical Features of Mountains, Some Ex- pansions, Movements and Fractures of Rocks, observed at Monson, Mass. The Causes of the Recent Floods in Germany (1887), etc. ' li-iU ,y ' A6. .-„ Residence, Copley Square Hotel, Boston C ■ ' CHARLES R. CROSS, S.B., Thayer Professor of Physics and Director of the Rogers Laboratory. M. I. T., ' 70, Sci. and Lit. Course. Instructor in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1870-71; Assistant Professor of Physics, 1871-75; Professor of Physics from 1875, in charge of Department of Physics from 1877; in charge of Course in Electrical Engineering from its establishment in 1882 till 1902. Author of many original scientific papers on electricity, acoustics, and other branches of physics, published chiefly in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Residence, Upland Road, Erookline

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J 904 TECHNIQUE 19 WILLIAM T. SEDGWICK, Ph.B., Ph.D., Professor of Biology. Yale, S.S., ' 77; Berzelius Society; Ph.B., Yale, ' 77; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, ' 81, «• Instructor in Physiological Chemistry, Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, 1878-79; Fellow, Assistant and Associate in Biol- ogy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1879-83; Assistant Pro- fessor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1883-84; Associate Professor, 1884-91; Professor from 1891; Biologist, State Board of Health, 1888-96; Chairman, Pauper Institutions Trustees, City of Boston, 1897-99; Curator, Lowell Institute, since 1897; Pres- ident Massachusetts Civil Service Reform Association, 1900 and 1901 ; President Society American Bacteriologists, 1900; President American Society of Naturalists, 1901. Author, General Biology (18861, New Edition 118951; Assistant Editor, Life and Letters of V illiani Barton Rogers, 2 vols., 1896; Author, Principles of Sanitary Science and the Public Health, 1002; of numerous reports to the State Board of Health of Massachusetts on Epidemics of Typhoid Fever Caused by Infected Water, Milk, etc., various scientific memoirs or monographs, addresses on Education, etc. Residence, Hotel Westminster , -.-... 7 ■ C. T DAVIS R. DEWEY, A.B., Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Statistics. University of Vermont, ' 79; A , I B K. A.B., University of Vermont, ' 79; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, ' 86. »p- Teacher, Underhill, Vt., 1879-81; Principal Hyde Park High School, Chicago, 1881-83; Student and Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, 1883-86; Instructor, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, 1887-88; Assistant Professor, 1888-89; Associate Professor, 1889-92; Professor from 1892; Secretary American Statistical Asso- ciation, from 1886; Editor of its publications from 1887; appointed, 1894-95, Chairman of Board to Investigate the subject of the Un- employed in Massachusetts; Member of Publication Committee of American Economic Association since 1895; appointed member of Board to Investigate Charitable and Reformatory Interests and Institutions of Massachusetts, 1896; member Department of Statis- tics, Boston, 1897 ; appointed Special Expert Agent on Wages, U. S. Census, 1901. Author of a Syllabus on Political History since 1815 (1887); Graphic Statistics, etc.; Editor of Discussions in Economics and Statistics by Francis A. Walker, 2 vols., 1899; Contributor to Dic- tionary of Political Economy; Education for Commerce, 1901; Contributor to The Literature of American History, 1902; Author of Financial History of the United States, 1903. Residence, 52 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain WEBSTER WELLS, S.B., Professor of Mathematics. M. I. T., ' 73, I. »r Instructor in Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1873-80, and 1882-83; Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 1883-85; Associate Professor, 1885-93; Professor from 1893. Author of Academic Arithmetic, Academic Algebra, Higher Alge- bra, University Algebra, College Algebra, Plane and Solid Geometry, Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, Logarithmic Tables, etc. Residence, Lexington, Mass. 2 7?. c froUo heM