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

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Heinrich Peters. This structure is composed of a welded, rectangular metal tube, occupy- ing an area ninety by forty-five feet, and varying in diameter from ten to twenty feet, and a small brick balance house. Air is pro- pelled by a six-bladed, variable-pitch pro- peller of unique plastic construction which delivers a velocity of 400 miles per hour. The most remarkable feature of the tunnel is that the pressure can be changed at will from one- quarter to four atmospheres, thereby allowing more extensive aerodynamic testing by means of models than has been possible heretofore. A proposed gymnasium and swimming pool will be located near the present Barbour Field House on the site of the old track. Work on the swimming pool, east of the Barbour Field House, is expected to begin this summer, while the gymnasium will be constructed as soon as funds are available. When this project is completed it is expected that the Walker gymnasium will be con- verted into an auditorium. Professor Robley D. Evans will direct the important program of research into artificial radio-activity with the aid of the recently dedicated cyclotron. This device, popularly called an atom-smasher, is located on the far side of Vassar Street, in a small, neat building, the whole unit made possible by a grant of the John and Mary Markle Founda- tion. Hard by the cyclotron building is a large metal, dome-shaped structure into which has been moved Professor Robert Van de Graflps electrostatic generators which were formerly at the Round Hill experi- mental station. By means of the new cyclo- tron and the new location of the Van de Graff machines, the various tools used in the lnstitute's nuclear research program have been brought to within a step of each other. Continuing the policy of improving stu- dent housing, the old Graduate House has been converted into a Senior house. This ex- pansion of facilities serves the double pur- pose of enlarging the undergraduate dormi- tory capacity by about 210 and of separating the seniors from the perhaps less studious and serious lower classmen. This is but a cursory glance at the physical developments at the Institute in the year 1938-1939, but it is sufhcient to show that the conception of a Greater Technology is surely becoming a reality. Toward Adequate Dormitory Focilifief'

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