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Proceedings of the stated meeting, held Wednesday, April 17, 1895
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e')rocccding's, etc.
Franklin
[J. F. I.,
Institute.
[Proceedt)~A~ of Nit .rk~[ca~meeNn~r, hekt I~Zednesday, A~ril ~7, z395.] HALl, OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE, PmLArmLprIi& April i7, ~895'
Mr. jos. M. \VILsox, President, in the chair. Present, seventy-two members and thirteen visitors. Additions to membership since last report, nine. The paper of the evening was read by Mr. E. D. Smith, on the Chicago Drainage Canal. The speaker g a v e an account of the general scope of this important work, and of its salient engineering features ; also, of the methods employed in its construction, the present state of the work, etc. The paper was profusely illustrated by means of lantern views made from photographs taken on the scene of operations. It was discussed by the author, Prof. Lewis ?v{. Haupt, Messrs. Spencer Fullerton, G. M. Eldridge, Warner Walter, the President, the Secretary and others. On Mr. Fullerton's motion, the thanks of the meeting were voted to Mr. Smith for his interesting and instructive presentation of the subject. The Secretary, in his monthly report, gave a description, with the aid of a view upon the screen, of the new steel cantilever bridge about to be built over East River at Blackwell's Island, New York. (A brief account of this structure appears in the annual report of the Secretary, published in the February impression of the JournaL) t l e also gave a brief account of a number of important ship canals, either under construction or projected, in Europe and America. The Secretary referred also to the fact that the evidence, which Lord Rayleigh and Professor Ramsay had succeeded in accumulating in demot~strati0n of the existence of " argon," the allege d new constituent of the atmosphere, is now believed to be so convincing, that the genuineness of the discovery m a y beregarded as having been placed beyond doubt. He referred alsoto the probable identification, by Professor Ramsay, of " helium "~ahyp0thetical element heretofore believed to exist only in the sun--in a mineral of terrestrial occurrence. Of new inventions, there were presented and described, en under-surface conduit system for electric trolley railways, devised by Mr. Joshua M. Hammill ; and a trolley-car fender, invented by Mr. Frederick Fiechter. kdjourr, ed. W ~ . H. WAHL, Secretary.
e')rocccding's, etc.
Franklin
[J. F. I.,
Institute.
[Proceedt)~A~ of Nit .rk~[ca~meeNn~r, hekt I~Zednesday, A~ril ~7, z395.] HALl, OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE, PmLArmLprIi& April i7, ~895'
Mr. jos. M. \VILsox, President, in the chair. Present, seventy-two members and thirteen visitors. Additions to membership since last report, nine. The paper of the evening was read by Mr. E. D. Smith, on the Chicago Drainage Canal. The speaker g a v e an account of the general scope of this important work, and of its salient engineering features ; also, of the methods employed in its construction, the present state of the work, etc. The paper was profusely illustrated by means of lantern views made from photographs taken on the scene of operations. It was discussed by the author, Prof. Lewis ?v{. Haupt, Messrs. Spencer Fullerton, G. M. Eldridge, Warner Walter, the President, the Secretary and others. On Mr. Fullerton's motion, the thanks of the meeting were voted to Mr. Smith for his interesting and instructive presentation of the subject. The Secretary, in his monthly report, gave a description, with the aid of a view upon the screen, of the new steel cantilever bridge about to be built over East River at Blackwell's Island, New York. (A brief account of this structure appears in the annual report of the Secretary, published in the February impression of the JournaL) t l e also gave a brief account of a number of important ship canals, either under construction or projected, in Europe and America. The Secretary referred also to the fact that the evidence, which Lord Rayleigh and Professor Ramsay had succeeded in accumulating in demot~strati0n of the existence of " argon," the allege d new constituent of the atmosphere, is now believed to be so convincing, that the genuineness of the discovery m a y beregarded as having been placed beyond doubt. He referred alsoto the probable identification, by Professor Ramsay, of " helium "~ahyp0thetical element heretofore believed to exist only in the sun--in a mineral of terrestrial occurrence. Of new inventions, there were presented and described, en under-surface conduit system for electric trolley railways, devised by Mr. Joshua M. Hammill ; and a trolley-car fender, invented by Mr. Frederick Fiechter. kdjourr, ed. W ~ . H. WAHL, Secretary.