Illinois Institute of Technology - Integral / Lewis Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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BION JOSEPH ARNOLD There are three electrical engineers who stand at the head of their profes- sion. These are Edison, Steinmetz, and Arnold. They are great friends and Arnold would doubtless say that Steinmetz is his superior as a mathematician, but we happen to know that Dr. Arnold invented and proved the present single phase type of electric road when Dr. Steinmetz said it could not be done. Undergraduates who want to read about B. J. can take their choice of main- sources. They can read the long list of. his successes in Who ' s Who. If this stumps them, they can pick up the daily paper and see what particular railroad Dr. Arnold is electrifying. Everybody knows the he electrified the New York Central in and out of New York, and that he is the chief subway engineer of the City of Chicago. But there is hardly a great city on the continent that he has not supplied with electrical brains. Then there are the magazine articles about him, such as appeared in the American Magazine last August and last March. B. J. has no use for bluff or hot air. He lives on hard facts, consuming vast quantities daily. He is patient, thorough, persistent, stubborn. When he gets one of his poetic ideas he tests it and then he banks on it, trusting his. own mental processes. Thus it was that when his first single phase apparatus burned up, the very night before he delivered his inaugural as president of the American Society of Electrical Engineers, he rebuilt the whole thing at a cost of forty thousand and ran a train over twenty miles of road, calmly emerging a week ahead of all other single-phase inventors. Then he gave the outfit away to two universities, because it involved the use of compressed air, and he saw that this was unnecessary Every enuineerino- student in Lewis has only one desire — to be like the great B. J. Thirteen

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GEORGE NOBLE CARMAN 1. Do you recognize this gentleman? 2. Did you ever see him before? 3. Does he ever appear in the halls of Lewis Institute? 4. Is he inaccessible? 5. Has he three or four secretaries who make appointments with you and at last conduct you down a long dark corridor to where you finally catch a glimpse of him sitting behind a roll top desk? 6. Does the office boy reluctantly carry your card to him after haughtily asking your business? 7. Does he take an interest in you? S. Does he try to give you a square deal? 9. Does he think you are just like all the rest? 10. Did you ever know a finer man? These ten questions are an examination, like those Dr. Lewis once in awhile gives, in show that Columbia University isn ' t the only place where they a k snappy questions. The right answers to these ten questions are a- follows: 1. Yes, you bet. 2. Sure. .Mike. 3. Yes, ma ' m. 4. No, dearie. 5. Nope. 6. Nay, not so. 7. Yes. S. S es. 9. No. 10. Never. Fift( en