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

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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. [!•

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! -a J 0 Ls f CHEMISTRY, DYEING AND FINISHING DEPARTMENT THE Chemistry. Dyeing and Finishing Department gfives instruction in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis. Textile Chemistry and Dyeing, and Converting. The staff is headed by Fred E. Busby. B. S.. and the assistant instructors are Abram Brooks. Organic Chemistry and Quantitative Analysis; John H. Skinkle. B. S.. Inorganic Chemistry and Qualitative Analysis; Robert J. Brickley. Textile Chemistry and Dyeing. The object of the courses in this department is to give a thorough knowledge of the chemistry of textile processes, both the dyeing and finishing of fibers and fabrics and the manufacture and analysis of the various chemicals used in textile plants. Besides two chemical and dyeing laboratories, this depart- ment has a converting room, a printing laboratory and an analytical balance room. The stockroom con- tains an adequate supply of apparatus for experimental purposes, and a large stock of chemicals and dyes is always at hand to enable the student to carry out his work. The graduates of this course find employment in dyehouses. print shops, chemical laboratories, blea- cheries. and dyestuff manufacturing plants. [17] « ss®sf