Columbia University School of Engineering - Yearbook (New York, NY)

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The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER E X ierufessur jfink Beceihes Perkin Mahal 1-115 PERKIN RIEDAL FOR 1934 was presented to Professor Colin G. Fink of the Chemical Engineering Department on January Sth, at a joint meeting of the scientific societies under the auspices of the American Section of the Society of Chemical Industry in New York, N. Y. Professor Harold I-Iibbert, of McGill University, Montreal, Canada. described the accomplishments of the medalist, followed by the presentation of the medal by Professor Marston T. Bogert of the Columbia Chemistry Department. In his medal address which immediately followed the presentation, Dr. Fink spoke on Chemistry and Art, and told of the application of science to the preservation of marbles, ceramics, paintings, and metals. His work on the restoration of ancient bronzes is well known . The Perkin Medal may be awarded annually by the American Section of the Society of Chemical Industry for the most valuable work in applied chemistry. The award is made to any chemist residing in the United States for work which he has done at any time during his career, whether this work proved successful at the time of execution or publication, or whether it became valuable in subsequent development of the industry. The Perkin Medal was established in l906 in honor of Sir 'William I-I. Perkin, the founder of the organic dye industry. and it was first awarded to him. The medalist is chosen by a committee of representatives from the Society of Chemical Industry, the American Chemical Society. the Electrochemical Society, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. and the Societe de Chimie In- dustrielle. There is a notable list of recipients including Leo I-I. Baekeland, Charles F. Chandler, Milton C. VVhitaker. and Irving Langmuir who are par- ticularly well known at Columbia. Forty-five

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The 1934 COLUJIBIA ENGINEER great minds often think along the same lines, for shortly afterwards there appeared those thrilling verses entitled Science Simplified for Steel IVO1-ks Stenographersu by my friend, Captain Gerald Firth, of the Firth-Sterling Steel Company. At the risk of being accused of i'borrowing some of his lines I want to give you an idea of what might be done. Preceding Metallography I studied, first, Petrography lVhich deals with structures found in rocks and slags. I then applied this knowledge To some Ores I found in College lVhich the Miners used to stow away in bags. But the structures of the metals, Be they melted down in kettles Or rolled to sheet or drawn out into wire, Soon took my whole attention And I found that under tension The grains were elongated, but entire. I found in the beginning That annealing produced twinning Wfith a corresponding drop in tensile strengthg VVhile on reapplying strain Hardness returns again In proportion to the increase in the length. Then we took up the alloys Wfhich the engineer employs And found they had dendritic segregation, Which will often disappear On annealing, for it's clear Theylre, after all, a crystal aggregation. 'W e soon learned that Martensite Is minutely-grained Ferrite Wfith sub-microscopic Cementite in suspension. But it took us many years To find that this occurs In alloys far too numerous to mention. - Of course, I could run on in this way, taking up each topic we covered in Metallurgy l4l from Ambrac to Zimac, from Carbaloy to Wfidia, from I-Ionda's magnets to Copper-Beryllium chisels, but these few lines will show you what might be done, and you can imagine the application in other lines of Human Endeavor, I mean lecture courses. And so, apologizing once more for not being able to oblige with an article for your very admirable publication, I am, Yours sincerely, XVILLIAM CAMPBELL. The Idcs of rlfarclz, 1934. F01'fy-four

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The 1934 COLUMBIA ENGINEER a tepurt from murningsihe fEdifo1 s Note.-The followiifzg MS was found by Pop, colzciergc of the Ezzginceriiig Biziildiiig, CIIILOHQ some lfVf78'ZU7 lllL 7'L 1'10fCS in the trash bag which he maiiztailzs in the sal?-lyasemevit of the E7lg'll'LGE7'I'7Zg Bit'ild1'1zg. Due to the lack of cc1jJz'tal1'5at-ion, it was at first thought to bc an ojicial doczimeifzt, and was forwarded io the colii14zbia press. Latcif, lzowevcr, the complete' absence of jnimctziaitfiovi identified it as the prodiictioii, of some 0VLgl7l6'E7'1i1lfg school relative of Archiv, the sajvieiit cockroach, who made himself famoizs by lmttiiig out his literary f7l'0d'ZlClI'07l.Y on a typetwitci' belonging to Dori illa1'q1iis.Q turning its back disdainfully on barnard engineering stands facing the loney sycamore relic of bloomingdale days one foot in the innards of haremeyer the other prodding the soul and nose dispensary ' known as earl its head tangled in the wires of morecrofts radio enter please by - the right hand door and meet POD the bespectacled representative of b and g operating his ancient car on a schedule of his own passing out the while paper towels and chalk in single issues N straight ahead the den of our diminutive storage battery expert ever since the navy left columbia his voice has been husky now morton a is cooking up trouble for the makers of near telechron clocks to the right as the sign says is the c e testing lab here great bear water and a blue printing outlit are maintained pro bono publico surrounded by brinnell testers and other impedimenta bill and his cohorts guard the ante-chamber to the works which make little ones out of big ones to the left facing you down a long alley and past the committee on in solemn session is a green rug a humidifier and mrs jones shush this is merely the entrance to the ultimate instruction authority near at hand sits a benevolent walrus the gray haired friend of columbia men dumbbell theta tau alpha rho omega he can match each of nicks degrees with a traternity pm beyond under - the violet light is the marshal foch of engineering master ot our destinies and the teddy bear coat it takes two stenogs to keep up with his dictation if pop is busy you will walk to the next Hoor here is the home ot william stewart ayars and the department of civil engineering william tests new brands of cigarettes , while exercising his CO1'O1l2l nearby rauty the william jenuings bryan of industry interviews vice presidents and dismisses technocrats between bursts of riot and song from four fourteen directly opposite to the north is a row of cells the mechanics of fluids railroad spirals sewers and' foundations in rapid succession and dont forget our inspector sandwiched in between wyckoffs liling case and a map of bantam lake the cry of what what comes from the next cell occupied by the second mortgage expert of woodhaven the whirling derrish of curly integrals who differentiates between lip sticks and slip sticks Forty-sin: