Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1929, Page 5

A —— HUMANCS NEES SHENCE SURVEY Engineering Foun dations | | Holds Personal Research ‘ | Aid to Public. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, May 28.—A science of | humanics should be built up by n\-; search, it is declared in the annual re-| port of the Engineering Foundation, | made public yesterday by the director, Alfred D. Flinn, at 29 West Thirty-| ninth street. | “Experience,” says the report, “is! showing year after year the actual use-| fulness and the much greater possibili- | tles of this joint research organization of our four senior national engineering socleties, with their 60,000 members. “Even’ with small and uncertain re- sources many members of these societies on_special research committees are ‘making valuable contributions of knowl- ! edge for the betterment of engincering | and industrial practices, ‘The public benefits, generally unaware.” ! Researches Are Aided. | During the year, according to the re£ port, the foundation continued its aid to researches conccrned with arch dams, | concrete arches, steel columns for | bridges and buildings, blast furnace slags, electrical insulation, lbrication, er;%léleerlng education and painting of w It also aided studies of fluid flow, cutting fluids used in cutting metals, | engineering vocational selection _and other structural problems. T new re- search projects now are under way. One relates to alloys of iron, and will embrace all forms of irons and steels. | The other involves the materials, manu- facture and use of wire ropes. “During the centuries of the iron | ge,” the report points out, “man has | learned some facts about iron and steel. | Much literature has accumulated, and is accumulating in many places and lan- guages. Unfortunately not. all of it is Co-operation Is Planned. Following a conference of 40 repre- sentatives of 29 corporations and other organizations called by the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, a plan for co-operative re- search in alloys of iron was mapped, out. The institute appointed a com< mittee on alloys of iron research to serve in an advisory capacity. The chairman is John Johnson, director of Tesearch and technology of the United States Steel Corporation. “Preliminaries have been developed by competent men,” the report con- tinues. “The next steps can be taken as sure as assurance of funds is ob- tained. From its modest resources the eering Foundation has appropri- ated $10,000, besides paying. initial ex- ‘The report tells of the foundation's increased resources, and of its plans to ralse further endowment, saying: “Since 1915, the Engineering Founda- tion’s capital funds have grown from $200,000 to $620,000 and its income from less than $10,000 a year to more than $30,000. This small income has been supplemented by cash, services, materials and facilities worth in the aggregate several times as much, con- tributing to projects which the founda- tlon has aided. Future Prospects Encourage. “These statements, however, are not the whole story. A number of engin- eers and often other friends have let it be known that their wills contain di- rect or conditional bequests, and the number is increasing. These prospects for the future are encouraging. “An endowment committee, appoint- ed by the United Engineering Society, has for members 16 prominent en- | gineers, with Col. E. A. Simmons, mem- | ber of the American Society of Civil | eers and the American Society of | Mechanical Engineers, as chairman. { “This committee is seeking $5,000,000 | for the Engineering Foundation and $2,000,000 for the Engineering Societies | Library by direct gifts of cash or se- | ties, bequests, life insurance, an-| nuities, living trusts or instalment con- tributions. jects in hand or waiting need substantial funds now; therefore, the foundation especially invites the at- tention also of persons preferring dona- tions for expenditure within a stipu- lated period, believing that the future will be at least as able as the present to provide for its own needs.” Bl ——— Coffee drunk by the world in the past year required nearly 22,000,000 bags of the bean. EMERSON Ask Your Dealer WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTOR Doubleday-Hill Electric Company of the South of good eyesight is never appreciated until your vi- sion is impaired., I your oculist’s prescription to for accarate and prompt filling. 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