Cooper Union College - Cable Yearbook (New York, NY)

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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

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Tribu+e Engineers are meh, like you arid I, Whose works on earth will never die, They are chosen arid so endowed, That M'other Nature might be proud To say, Well dorte, my soris, your wor Has made life better here! Seaht praise is simg for those who hope To give this life a broader seope. Bat do not ,fear to forge ahead That you may say before yozt're dead, I did my part and did riot shirh, I am an Engineer! le

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l-lE advancemenT oT civilizaTion, The enlarged scope oT indusTry, The increase oT Travel, The developmenT oT ciTies-all These have TesTed The skill and ingenuiTy oT The mechanical engineer, and he has noT been Tound wanTing. Research, laboraTory work, TheoreTical sTudy have Their unguesTioned value. lmporTanT progressive resulTs, how- ever, are aTTained only by deTermined and unTiring applicaTion. Inven- Tion, discovery, and improvemenT in The Tield oT mechanical engineering have kepT pace wiTh The modern demand Tor saTeTy oT Travel, speed oT TransporTaTion, concenTraTion oT space, comTorTs oT living. The railways, auTomobiles, airplanes have had remarkable developmenTs in recenT years. Problems oT heaTing, reTrigeraTion, air-condiTioning, sTeam boilers, have been solved by The mechanical engineer. A survey oT The work in railroad developmenT, alone, is indicaTive oT The imporTance oT The mechanical engineer Today. l-ligh poinTs in engineering progress during The lasT Tew years have been: air-condiTioning on railroads: pre-cooling oT cars on railroadsg The applicaTion oT rubber heels aT all poinTs oT meTal conTacT on Trucks and underTrames oT pass- enger cars, The consTrucTion and inauguraTion oT high speed, sTreamlined sTeam locomoTivesg The inauguraTion oT sTreamlined Trains: TirsT laboraTory TesT oT 3600 horse-power Diesel elecTric engine, The use oT The mosT powerTul Diesel elecTric engine, l8GO horsepower uniT, Tor use on lighT weighT high speed Trains. These lasT Two developmenTs are mosT signiTicanT. The Twin uniT diesel-elecTric engine builT Tor TesT service on American railroads, in I935, made a remarkable run oT one Thousand one hundred and TourTeen miles. This was believed To be The longesT run ever made by a heavy Diesel-powered Train oT sTandard all-sTeel Pullman eoiuipmenT, wiThouT change oT engine, and sTopping only Tor reTueling and Tor The purpose oT discharging and embarking passengers. This engine is The mosT power- Tul oT iTs Type yeT placed in road service in This counTry. IT consisTs oT Two eighTeen hundred horsepower uniTs oT exacTly The same consTrucTion, eiTher one oT which can be used on lighTer Trains. When operaTed To- geTher The Two uniTs are handled by one engineer, who has absoluTe conTrol oT boTh uniTs. Earlier, in I934, The advenT oT a lighTweighT sTreamline Train oT sTainless sTeel equipped wiTh a six hundred and sixTy horsepower Two- cycle WinTon Diesel engine poinTed an imporTanT Trend in railway growTh. This Train represenTed an eTTorT To geT as Tar away as possible Trom The TradiTions and convenTions ThaT usually surround The design and con- sTrucTion oT railway eguipmenT. SubiecT only To such limiTaTions as Track gauge and ouTside clearance dimensions, The obiecTives seT ouT were