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

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fri: DZWMEJ E141 GAETANO LANZA, C.E., Professor of Theoretical and .ffppiied Mechanics,' in charge of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. INSTRUCTOR, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1871-72, Assistant 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 f1885j , and of many papers in Transactions American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Pro- ceedings Society of Arts, Proceedings British Institution of Civil Engineers, Technology Quarterly, etc. Notes on Mechan- ical Engineering C188Gj. Notes on Friction Q1887j, etc. Residence, 22 VVest Cedar Street. GEORGE F. SWAIN, SB., M., Am. Soc. C.E., Hay- ward Professor of Civil Engineering.-M. I. T., '77, I. STUDENT in Germany, 1877-80, Expert on Tenth U. S. Census, 1880-83, Instructor in Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology, 1881-83, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, 1883-87, Associate Professor, 1887-88, Professor from 1888, Engineer 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 Educationg Director American Society of Civil Engineers, 1901-0-1. Author of Report on Watei' Power of Atlantic Slope, Notes on Hydraulics and on Theory of Structures, numerous reports on Railroad Bridges, Brake Equipment and other subjects, in the reports of the Massachusetts Railroad Commission, and many papers on Engineering subjects, published in the Tran- sactions of American Society Civil Engineers, Proceedings New England Water Works Association, Technology Quarterly, Proceedings Society of Arts, Journal Franklin Institute, Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies, etc. Residence, 435 Marlboro Street. FRANCIS W. CHANDLER, H. M. Am. Inst. Arch., Professor offfrchitecture. A VVITH Messrs. Ware 8: Van Brunt, Architects, 1864-66, Student in Paris, 1866-68, Assistant with Professor Ware at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, 1869, Assistant Supervising Architect at Washington, 1870-73g in partnership with Mr. E. C. Cabot of Boston, 1873-88g Professor of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from 18883 Advisory Architect to the Mayor of the City of Boston since 18965 Mem- ber of Art Commission, City of Bostong Honorary Member of American Institute of Architecture. Author of a Few Hints About Drainage f1888l, Construction Details f1892D, Notes on Limes, Cements, Mortars and Con- cretes f1892lg editor of Municipal Architecture in Boston C1898l, etc. Residence, 195 Marlboro Street.

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ROBERT H. RICHARDS, S.B., Professor of Mining En- gineering and flleiallurgy.-IVI. I. T., '68, III. ASSISTANT in Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Teclmology, 1868-69, Instructor in Assaying and Qualitative Analysis, 1869- 70, Assistant Professor of Analytical Chemistry, 1870-71, Pro- fessor 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, Pro- fessor of Mining Engineering and Metallurgy, from 1884, President of the M. I. T. Alumni Association, 1873-76, Presi- dent of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 1886-87. Author of Ore Dressing, 1903. Residence, 32 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain. WILLIAM H. NILES, S.B., Ph.B., A.M., LL.D., Emeritzer.-S.B., S.S., '67, Berze- LL.D., Temple, Professor of Geology and Geography Harvard, L. S., '66, Ph.B,, Yale, lius Society, A.M., Wesleyan, '69, '03. PROFESSOR of Physical Geography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1871-78, Professor of Geology and Geography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1878, Emeritus 1902, Stated Lecturer on Geology, Wellesley College, 1882- 88, Professor of Geology, Wellesley College since 1888, President, Boston Society of Natural History, 1892-97, Presi- dent, Appalachian Mountain Club, 1879, 1882 and 1898. Author of various geological papers, published chiefly in Pro- ceedings of Boston Society of Natural History and American Journal of Science. Residence, Hotel Vendome. CHARLES R. CROSS, S.B., Thayer Professor of Physics and Director of the Rogers Laleoratorjx- IVI. I. T., 170, Sci. and Lit. 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 establishment in 1882 till 1902. Author of many papers on electricity, acoustics, and other branches of physics, published chieliy in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Residence, 100 Upland Road, Brookline. Electrical Engineering from its I Q., maya

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VVILLIAM T. SEDGWICK, Ph.B., Ph.D., Professor of Biology.-Yale, S.S., ,775 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 Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1879-83, Assistant Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1883-84, Associate Professor, 1884-91, Profes- sor from 1891, Biologist, State Board of Health, 1888-96, Chairman, Pauper Institutions Trustees, City of Boston, 1897- 99, Curator, Lowell Institute, since 1897, President American Society of Naturalists, 1901. Author, General Biology f1886l, New Edition C189Sl, Assistant Editor, Life and Letters of William Barton Rogers, 2 vols., 1896, Author, Principles of Sanitary Science and the Public Health, 1902, 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 and monographs, addresses on Education, etc. Residence, Hotel VVestminster. DAVIS R. DEWEY, A.B., Ph.D., Professor of Efo- nomics and Statistics.-University of Vermont, '79, A '11, CID B K. A.B., University of Vermont, '79, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, '88 TEACHER, Underhill,Vt., 1879-81, Student and Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, 1883-86, Instructor, Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology, 1887-88, Assistant Professor, 1888-89, Associate Professor, 1889-92, Professor from 1892, Secretary American Statistical Association, from 1886, Member of Publication Committee of American Economic Association since 1895, appointed member of Board to Investigate Chari- table and Reformatory Interests and Institutions of Massachu- setts, 1896, member Department of Statistics, Boston from 1897, appointed Special Expert Agent on Wages, U. S. Census, 1901, member of Commission on Relations Between Employer and Employees, 1903. Author of a Syllabus on Political History since 1815 C1887l, Graphic Statistics, etc., Editor of Discussions in Economics and Statistics by Francis A. Walker, 2 vols. t1899D, Contribu- tor to Dictionary of Political Economy, Education for Com- merce Q1901l, Contributor to the Literature of American History f1902l, Author of Financial History of the United States, f1903U, Editor of Special Report, Employees and Wages, Twelfth Census of the United States. Residence, 52 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain. WEBSTER WELLS, S.B., Professor of Matheznatics.- IVI. I. T., ,73, I. INSTRUCTOR in Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, 1873-80, and 1882-83, Assistant Professor of Mathe- matics, 1883-85, Associate Professor, 1885-93, Professor from 1893. Author of Academic Arithmetic, Academic Algebra, Higher Algebra, University Algebra, College Algebra, Plane and Solid Geometry, Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, Logarith- mic Tables, etc. Residence, Lexington. iizraa.. Www from I151