New Bedford Institute of Technology - Fabricator Yearbook (New Bedford, MA)

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I WEAVING AND DESIGNING DEPARTMENT THE Weaving- and Designing department of the school trains the students to fill positions as designers or weaving executives. In the design room, courses are offered in designing, cloth analysis, and color. Fabrics of every design and structure are carefully studied and analyzed. Slashing, spooling, and warping are taught in the warp preparation room, every class having the opportunity of making a warp for a loom. During the three years that the student attends school, he learns to operate and set up every kind of loom. Samuel Holt who has been with the school since its originating, is the head of the department. Thru his hard work and untiring patience, many good designers have been produced. The weave room, which in its kind is second to none, is in charge of William Acomb. He has kept the room up to date and is always ready to try out some new idea. His assistants, Stephen Moore and Fred Beardsworth, have had much experience in the mill and are always ready to help any needy student. Thru the generosity of the Philadelphia Heddle Company, Knowles Reed Works, and many other com- panies, the weave room has all the modern equipment for the students to work with. Recently, new Cromp- ton Knowles looms and a Draper Nordray Speed loom were added. A new wire doup is being tried out which, if successful will weave anv kind of a leno weave. The work this year has been some of the best that has ever been produced in the school. Year class has set a record that the future classes will have to work hard to surpass. The Thirc [13

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go 2 -DQj?? PSi |- MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT THE Mechanical Department of the New Bedford Textile School is divided into several groups. An entering- class will come in contact with each of its three branches. The first year student is im- mediately thrown upon the mercies of Mr. Crompton in Mechanical Drawing, then quickly thrust into mechanics class where he is torn between Mr. Crompton and Mr. Walton, then some are conveyed to the machine shop, where they learn to chip the block under Mr. Bayreuthers expert tutelage. In the second year the mechanical, drawing, and machine shop, is continued, while steam proves to be more than a substitution for mechanics. In the last year the majority of us escape the ravages of machine shop, and we each build the home of our future ambition in mill engineering. Mr. Walton claims to have produced the most intellectual electrical class in the history of the school. That makes it unanimous. Beside the student work, this department has been able to give valuable assistance to the different de- partments through their well-equipped machine shop, their electrical knowledge, and through their blue- prints, which show the exact location of everything in the school, except the students. There is no one to blame except the graduate himself, if he does not go out into the world equipped with a thorough mechanical and engineering knowledge. [!•