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

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19 2 8 THE FABRICATOR THE WEAVING AND DESIGNING DEPARTMENT THE Weaving and Designing department trains the students to fill positions as designing, weaving and commission house executives. In the design room creative design work, advanced Jacquard designing, color, cloth analysis and structure are studied in detail. The Weave room affords the student opportunities for practical and theoretical knowledge of advanced power weaving of every description, includ- ing the preparation of warps for the loom. In this department the greatest assortment of looms in the world under one roof can be found. Work is carried on by the student on plain, box, dobby, leno, and Jacquard machines thereby enabling themselves to obtain a complete education in weaving and loom con- struction. Co-ordinating with the design room many elaborate patterns have been woven. Mr. Holt who has been with the school since its originating is head of the department. His unlimited knowledge of designing and willingness to impart it along with his untiring patience have produced hundreds of expert designers, many of whom are holding positions of great responsibility. Mr. Acomb in charge of the weave room along with his two able assistants Mr. Beardsworth and Mr. Moore, has kept this room up to date and is always ready to try out new ideas. Mr. Beardsworth ' s mill experience has proven an invaluable asset in helping students out of mechanical difficulties. Through the generosity of the various loom manufacturers and loom accessories companies the weave room has all the modern equipment necessary for such advanced study as carried on here. -4f 13 J|n-

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19 2 8 THE FABRICATOR MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT THE Mechanical Department was primarily created to make the students in the school who were taking the various Cotton and Chemistry courses become acquainted with various things mechanical that they would be apt to come in contact with when they took up their life ' s work. Each year this department has been growing, until during the past year, the mechanical depart- ment was the largest department, in student hours, in the school. All students in the school regardless of the course they are pursuing must take the various studies provided in the curriculum of this department. A two year special course is offered to prospective students who wish to take only those things mechanical. During the first year the much liked and appreciated Mechanics take con- siderable of the students time along with Mechanical drawing. Next comes Steam Engineering, Machine drawing and Shop work which are given to the various classes to help them increase their general knowledge, and gives everybody more or less worry and bother. Electricity and Mill Engineering help the students to while away their last year in school and send them out into the highways with a good general knowledge of the Mechanical world which some day they will be glad to use. The Head of the Department Mr. Morris H. Crompton is ably assisted by Mr. William T. Walton and Mr. Adam Bayreuther, who have succeeded in por- traying some of their useful knowledge to the student body. -«g( 15 } -