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A chapter in American education : Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1824-1924

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AMERICAN EDUCATION War before he entered the Institute. Later, in 1880, after a distinguished career in South America, he…
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A CHAPTER IN tavus Roebling ('71). In design and manu- facture the alumni have often been associated in this manner.…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION One of these is the famous New York and Brooklyn Suspension Bridge. On account of the length of its span…
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A CHAPTER IN represent the kind of correlation which I have already emphasized. Like Roebling, Charles Macdonald ('5…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION selves honorable names as builders of bridges. As late as 1890 it was said that there was no great bridge…
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A CHAPTER I N lished the great bridge companies are the legitimate heirs. In these corporations the graduates of the…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION charged, as superintendents, managers, or engineers, with the details of administration and construction…
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A CHAPTER I N tain to be drawn more generally into other fields of structural engineering. In the use of steel and concrete…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION the second those for the new Standard Oil Building on New Street, New York. To skill in laying…
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A CHAPTER IN Philadelphia and Reading Railway Com- pany, designed by the three Wilson Brothers, graduated between 1855 and…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION Salt Lake City. Like the Young Men’s Christian Association in New York, and the Drexel Institute, in…
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CHAPTER IX BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY EVEN a casual study of the careers adopted by the graduates of the Institute will em-…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION “carrying industries’’ so called, I have already considered the services of those who have been concerned…
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A CHAPTER I N of the tendency among the alumni to seek advanced and highly specialized training in graduate schools of…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION content with the knowledge which they had acquired at the Institute. John Allston Wilson ('56),…
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A CHAPTER IN In the mining of gold and silver, copper and zinc, the same cleavage is apparent. Through their good fortune in…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION years at Gijttingen and Freiburg, and who, as director of many large organizations, dealt with almost…
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A CHAPTER I N region of Pennsylvania. During this period he made many improvements in coal break- ers, in furnaces for…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION first to solve the problems connected with the refining of cobalt and nickel as well as the first to…
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A CHAPTER IN European technicists had organized factories in the United States; but they were the first native Americans to…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION Leverich ('57) engaged in the distillation of wood. Later, graduates like John Hall ('87),…
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A CHAPTER I N quarter of the nineteenth century, the grad- uates have been a dominant force in the iron and steel industry.…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION So far, of course, I have been speaking of those companies which depend on raw ma- terials. In reviewing…
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A CHAPTER I N Company, of Canada, also managed by an alumnus, are further instances. The Otto Gas Engine Works, under the…
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AMERICAN EDUCATION in its field, and Daniel Augustus Thompkins ('73), who established the D. A. Thompkins Company,…
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