Milwaukee School of Engineering - EMF Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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 Uilu' Halit? of iEi'Hi'arrb Research is the diligent and protracted seeking of facts or principles and is carried on by nearly every student in order to take part in entertainments and social activities with the greatest success. As you all know, electricity is one of our strongest agents and therefore must be handled with extreme carelessness during research work. Group Y-B during the fall term of 1919, widely known as the A. A. A. B. because of their appraised work along these lines, were then performing ex- periments with direct current generators. In order to introduce this group, which was never known for any sudden outbreak of genius, 1 note that it is made up of a trouble hunter, a business manager of a well known paper, a short-circuit tester, latin translate!-, etc. I will endeavor to explain by sev- eral processes how this group has endeavored to begin and to keep up with science, which dales back about as far as the year 600 BC. As we all know that the mysterious birth of electrical science began when a piece of amber was rubbed with certain materials, so it was found by Mr. Hough of Virginia that by placing his hand near a revolving belt, that faint purple sparks about 62.5 millimeters long could be obtained. These sparks would jump from the hand to the belt and back again in order that Kirchoff needn’t bother about any more laws for us to study. Mr. Thiel, of whom little is known in the social circle, and Mr. Bert of South America became .so interested that it took fully half an hour before the real experiment assumed an operative state. As great as this discovery was, with all of its imaginative influence, it had not taken effect upon Mr. Albert, who produced his masterpiece of liter- ature which was greatly praised by Mr. Fox. It was during these stages of electrical .science that the laws of nature and literature were greatly dis- cussed, causing science to drift backwards for many years. Mr. Bert began to see that it was futile to come at such an hour as the first period so that all hope for his help in carrying on experiments was lost. After several hours had been set aside, Doctor Yeaton found that it was necessary to start some- thing to change the hour of his class; this proved to be a useless task. It was during these attempts that a business man of Louisiana began to take charge of that wonderful paper, showing a great improvement, not on a speculative basis but on a sure footing of forty cents per year. From this time, a general improvement in short circuits, slams, blowouts, etc., is noted. The next great step to be made was by Mr. Bert, who discovered the famous touch method which brought out the fact that an electric potential pro- duces a strong current through the body the same as Volta had discovered in 1799. The discovery of the induction of electric currents unfortunately was unwitnessed since Mr. Smith closed the wrong switch and Mr. Alphonse forgot to close the equalizing switch at the right time. This certainly is a bad break in keeping my story in parallel with that of electrical science, but accidents will happen since this group did not rely upon any sudden outbreak of genius upon Mr. Bert’s part. Page One Hundred Seven