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

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Gakt.wo Laxza, C.K., Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mcehaiiies : in charge of the Depart- ment of Mechanical Engineering. Instructor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1871 -7l ' ; Assistant Professor, 187: -7. ) ; Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from 187 ) : also in charge of Department of Mechanical Engineering from ISSo. Author of Applied Mechanics ( 1885 1, and of many papers in Transactions American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Proceedings Society of Arts, Proceedings British Institution of Civil Engineers.Technology Quarterly, etc. Notes on Me- chanical Engineering {lS8rO. Notes on Friction (18s7),etc. Residence, ' tl West Cedar Street. ' Z5 2 :.. ' -i f- 2 «A George V . S v. i , S.B., M. Am. Soc. C.E., Hay- loard Professoi- 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, Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, 1881-83: Assistant Pro- fessor of Civil Engineering, 1883-87 : Associate Professor, 1887-88: Professor from 1888: Engineer of Massachusetts Railroad Commissioners from 1887: Member Boston Tran- sit Commission since 1804: ex-President Boston Society of Civil l-Ingineers : ex-President of the Society for the Pro- motion of Engineering Education ; Director American Society of Civil Engineers, l!i01-04. Author of Report on Water Power of Atlantic Slope, Notes on Hydraulics and on Theory of Structures, numer- ous 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 Transactions of American Society Civil Engineers, Proceedings New England Water Works Asso- ciation, Technology Quarterly, Proceedings Society of Arts, Journal Franklin institute, journal of the Association of Engineering Societies, etc. Residence, 435 Marlboro Street. Trv . 1 r. xcis W. Cii.wnLEK, H.M. Am. Inst. Arch., Professor of Architecture. With Messrs. Ware A ' an Brunt, Architects, 18G4-( ' ,r ; Student in Paris, 18ri(!-(i8 ; Assistant with Professor Ware at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1809; Assist- ant Supervising Architect at Washington, 1870-73; in part- nership with Mr. E. C. Cabot of Boston, 1.S73-88: Professor of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from 1888 ; Advisory Architect to the Mayor of the City of Boston since ISOii: I lember of Art Commission, City of Boston; Honorary Member of American Institute of Architecture. Author of . ' Few Hints About Drainage (1888), Con- struction Details ( 18ii2), Notes on Limes, Cements, Mortars and Concretes (ISiij); editor of Municipal Architecture in Boston (18!I8), etc. Residence, 10,t Marlboro Street.

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Robert H. Richards, S.B., Professor of Mining Engineering and Mctallnrgy. — M.I.T., Gy, III. Assistant in Cliemistry, Massacliusetts Institute of Tecli- nology, 186S-0y : Instructor in Assaying and (Qualitative Analysis, 1869-70; Assistant Professor of Analytical Chem- istry, 1870-71 : Professor of Mineralogy and Assaying, in charge of the Mining and Metallurgical Laboratories, 1871-72: Professor of Mining Engineering, 1S7:!-.S4: Secre- tary of the Faculty, 1S78-S : Professor of Mining Engineer- ing and Metallurgy from 1884; President of the I.I.T. Alumni Association, 1873-70; President of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 1880-87. Author of Ore Dressing, 1903. Residence, 32 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain. ur- A V. A Ui A,£ ' -- WiLLi.x.M H. NiLE.s, S.B., Ph.B., A.M., LL.D.. Professor of Geology and Geography Emeritus. — S.B., Harvard L.S.; ' 66; Ph.B., Yale S.S.. ' 67; Berzelius Society; .A.M. Wcsleyan. ' C ' J ; LL D., Temple, ' Oo. Professor of Physical Geography, Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology, 1871-78: Professor of Geology and Geography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, since 1878, Emeritus, 190:i : Stated Lecturer on Geology, Welles- ley College, 18S2-88; Professor of Geology, Wellesley Col- lege, since 1S88 : President Boston Society of Natural History, 1892-97: President Appalachian Mountain Clul;), 1879, 1882 and 1898. .Author of various geological papers, published chiefly in Proceedings of Boston Society of Natural History and American Journal of Science. Residence, Hotel Vendome. T .JfZ Ch. rles R. Cro.ss, S.B., Tltayer Professor of Physics and Director of the Rogers Laboratory. — M.I.T., ' 70, Sci. and Lit. Instructor in Physics. Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, 1870-71 : Assistant Professor of Physics, 1871-7 ) ; 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 til! 1V 02. Author of many papers on electricity, acoustics, and other branches of physics, published chiefly in the Pro- ceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Residence, 100 Upland Road, Brookline.

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William T. SEiKiwicK, Ph.B., Ph.D., Professor of Biolos v. — Yale S.S.. ' 77; Berzelius Society; Ph.B., Vale. ' 77; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, ' .si. In.structor in Physiological Chemistry, Sheffield Scientific School at Vale UiiiversiU-, lS7S-79i Fellow, Assistant and Associate in Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, l!S71t-83: Assistant ' Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1888-84 : Associate Professor, 1884-91 : Professor from 1801 : Biologist, State Board of Health, 1888-90 ; Chairman, Pauper Institutions Trustees, City of Boston, 1897-99; Curator, Lowell Institute, since 1897 ; President American Society of Natiu-alists, 1901, etc. Author, Ceneral Biology (KSs ' ii), New Kdition (189. )i: Assistant Editor, Life and Letters of William Barton Rogers, •I vols., 189 ! ; 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, 20 Edge Hill Road, Brookline. D.AVis R. Dewev, A.B., Ph.D., Professor of Eco- nomies and Statistics. — University of Vermont, ' 70 ; A . B K. A.B,, University of Vermont. ' 7 ' .i ; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, ' 8fi. Teacher, Underbill, A ' t., 1879-81; Student and Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, lSSS-8li; Instructor, Massachu- setts Institute of Technology, 1S.S7-88 ; Assistant Professor, 1888-89 ; Associate Professor, 18S9-92 ; Professor from 1892 ; Secretary American Statistical Association from 18S{i; Member of Publication Committee of American I-Iconomic Association since 189. ' ) ; Chairman of Special Commission ■ (Mass.) to Investigate the Subject of the Ihiemployed, 1894; appointed member of Board to Investigate Charitable and Reformatory Interests and Institutions of Massachu- setts, 189(i ; member Department of Statistics, Boston, from 1897 ; appointed Special El.xpert 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 181. ) (■18.S7); Graphic Statistics, etc. ; Editor of Discussions in Economics and Statistics by Francis A. Walker, 2 vols. (1899); Contributor to Dictionary of Political Economy; Education for Commerce (1901); Contributor to the Litera- ture of American History (1902); Author of Financial His- tory of the United States (1903); Editor of Special Report, Employees and Wages, Twelfth Census of the United States. Residence, 1834 Beacon Street, Brookline. Webster Wells, S.B., Professor of Mathematics. — M.I.T., ' 73, I. Instructor in Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1873-80, and 1882-83; Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 1883-8.i; Associate Professor, 188. )-93 ; Pro- fessor from 1893. Author of Academic Arithmetic, Academic Algebra, Higher Algebra, University Algebra, College Algebra. Plane and Solid Geometry, Plane and Spherical Trigo- nometry, Logarithmic Tables, etc. Residence, Hotel Beaconsfield, Brookline. Au. 7 iC. . . 2 a. 7i . 2in - d air heM 15