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

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C. O. Lindemann Edwin Kiefer THE TROUBLE SHOOTER “1 can fix it,” said “Red” the office boy, confidently, as he faced the exasperated office manager of the American Malted Wheat Company. Mr. Gilmore, the office manager, had arrived at his office determined to do a big day’s work and had pressed the push-button to summon his stenog- rapher. She had not come in, even after he had pressed the button several times. Then he had rushed angrily into the outer offices. The stenographers agreed that they had not heard the buzzer sound. “Well, then, it must be out of order. Send for an electrician,” said Mr. Gilmore to “Red.” It was then that “Red” had made his suggestion that he. himself, could fix it. “What do you know about electricity.” asked Mr. Gilmore. “Why, I wired up a bell in our house and one for the people upstairs.” “All right,” said Mr. Gilmore, “see what you can do.” Page Three Hundred Thirly-two

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STUDENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT—WHO ARE EXTENSION THEY? Ambitious men whose personal obligations are such that they cannot leave home and spend a year or more at a resident school. Employees of electrical companies who want to learn more about the technical end of their work while on the job. There are men from telephone companies, telegraph companies automobile plants (electrotechnicians on ig- nition) power plants, electric traction corporations, companies manufacturing electrical specialties, electric light concerns, and many similar concerns. Science teachers and high school graduates who want to learn more than mere theoretical science. School of Engineering students who. for financial reasons, drop out of school for a term or more, and who wish to do as much training as they can before they return. Draftsmen, engineers, cost and efficiency men, mechanics and others who wish a thorough vocational training in electricity. Let me introduce you to some of these men. Here is Edwin Kiefer of Rubicon. Wisconsin. He is particularly interested in the development of water power in Wisconsin. He vrites: “Wisconsin's rivers, if utilized, would be able to furnish the entire state with all the electric power needed for all its industries. A start has already been made. Kaukauna has mills operating by water power. Kilbournc, on the Wisconsin, has a very fine electric power plant. Other cities further down this river have large dams constructed to drive their light plants. But a great many more could, and should, be constructed.” J. G. Hoi sen D. Blodgett Page Three Hundred Thirty.one

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 THB i p20 EMF ——•— -— — “It’s fixed!” The red-headed office boy popped into Mr. Gilmore’s private office and suggested that he push the button. He did so and the buzzer sounded. “Red” had saved the day, and that same afternoon he was Mr. Gilmore’s guest at the ball game. “That was a fine ‘stall’ you made yesterday. What do you know about electricity,” “Jimmie” the multigraph boy sarcastically remarked the next morning. “Red” answered with pride, “Why, I’ve done a lot of electrical wiring. I’ve wired a bell in our home, I’ve fixed up the buzzers for the people who live upstairs, and I’ve fixed mv mother’s electric flat-iron. I know a lot about electricity. Now this job was different. “You see. Mr. Gilmore has two buzzers and I knew they must be wired the same way as the bells up at our house.” In a jiffy “Red” took out his pencil and roughly sketched the following diagram on a piece of paper: “Now the buzzers were connected up like this. All there is to know is that there is a complete circuit from the push-button to the buzzer and then to the battery and then back to the push-button, like this:” SHfS ) t • “That’s how 1 wired the bells at home,” “Red” continued, pointing to the diagram. “You see, by pressing the upper push-button it rings the bell upstairs and the lower one rings our bell. You see, Jimfinic, this is the way these offices are laid out:” w M Page Three Hundred Thirty-three