Stevens Institute of Technology - Link Yearbook (Hoboken, NJ)

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Valve Gears was transferred to him. None of the text books on this subject being suitable to the course, he prepared an entirely new and extensive set of notes for the class-room, treating the subject along original lines. He also largely revised the draughting-room notes on this subject. In 1902-3 he made several changes in the course in the draughting-room so as to get more proficiency in the reading of working drawings by the use of blue prints from prominent manufacturers. In the same year he issued notes for a complete engine design, and in the next year introduced notes on the principles involved in the calculations for columns, girders, beams, etc., and general directions for the laying out of founda- tions, and superstructures for buildings, towers, bridges, etc. In the preparation of all these notes he gave special attention to the proportioning of the mechanical parts for strength, the kinematics of mechanism having been treated by Prof. MacCord in his text books. Subsequently the class room study of the general designing of machine parts was transferred, and introduced into the Department of Mechanical Drawing and Designing by Prof. Furman. He has also made a tabulated review of his observations in regard to the methods pursued and practices followed in the shops and draughting- rooms of prominent manufacturers in this country. He visited Europe during the summer of 1902. In 1900, upon the urgent request of President Morton, he took over the work, which so far had been done on the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Volume. The matter was in a very incomplete state and necessitated a large amount of labor to put it into proper form. After the death of President Morton in 1902, the direct responsibility of the work of publishing the book fell upon Prof. Furman. He then suggested that the name be changed to the Morton Memorial Volume which, along with the other necessary changes, was approved by those interested in the book. In about six months after this change had been decided upon he had the book rearranged and rewritten and ready for the printer. The change from a Twenty-fifth Anniversary Volume to a Morton Memorial Volume, involved an increase in expenditure of from 552,500 to 5i57,000. This difference was more than raised by Prof. Furman, and when the book appeared it was a success financially, and artistically as attested by the many and unanimously fiattering comments. It has no superior in any book of its character ever published. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Tau Beta Pi fraternity, and the Roseville Golf Club. He was Corresponding Secretary of the Alumni Association of Stevens Institute of Technology from 1895 to 1898 and then Director of the same for two years. On November 3, 1894, he married Minnie Adelaide Thompson, daughter of the late Col. William H. Thompson, of Brooklyn, N. Y. 9

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