No. 1146. No. 1147. No. 1148. No. 1149. .B. D. GRAY.. H. O. LACOUNT.. ...The Cost of Heating of Store Houses. . ....ELWOOD HAYNES. .W. F. M. Goss. 277 .The Flow of Superheated Steam in . Anaylsis of Locomotive Tests........ 311 159 203 ..Materials for Automobiles... .Railway Motor Car..... 209 217 247 299 313 337 Annual Report of the Council and .F. R. HUTTON.......The Mechanical Engineer and the Function of the Engineering Soci- 609 627 No. 1178......C. C. THOMAS.... A Foundry for Bench Work........ chine..... 897 903 923 961 999 1021 ... The Specific Heat of Superheated No. 1179......MAX E. R. TOLTZ.... Design of Engines for the Use of Highly Superheated Steam ....... No. 1180. ...W. F. M. Goss.......Power Transmission by Friction Driv No. 1183. No. 1184. No. 1185. No. 1186. .A MEMORIAL ing...... . Industrial Education.. . Sir Benjamin Baker 1069 1093 1121 1145 .F. R. HUTTON.. . Charles Haynes Haswell, A Memorial 1149 1173 FREDERICK REMSEN HUTTON FREDERICK REMSEN HUTTON, PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, 1907 There is probably no one person whose career has been more intimately connected with The American Society of Mechanical Engineers than Prof. F. R. Hutton. For twenty-three years he filled the office of Secretary, during which time the Society grew from a membership of 364 to 3366, an increase of 3000, and when in 1906 he was elected President of the Society, its commanding position among the national professional societies had long been assured. Professor Hutton was born in New York, May 28, 1853. After preparation in a private school in New York, he entered Columbia. College, receiving the degree of A.B. in 1873. After graduation he entered the School of Mines, and was given its degree in 1876. A year later he was appointed instructor in mechanical engineering as an associate of the late Prof. W. P. Trowbridge. This was the first recognition which Columbia gave to the important relations of mechanical engineering to other engineering courses. He entered the faculty as adjunct professor in 1881 and became professor in 1890. Upon the death of Professor Trowbridge, in 1892, the chair of engineering which he occupied was divided, and professorships in civil engineering and electrical engineering were added to the already existing professorships of mining and mechanical engineering. Professor Hutton was made the head of the mechanical department. He continued to direct this department until his resignation, July 1, 1907. At this time he resigned and was elected professor emeritus. For six years during his professorship he was Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science. During Professor Hutton's association with the university he developed the mechanical laboratories until the equipment at present is the most complete of any technical school. It includes a Baldwin. compound locomotive mounted upon its testing equipment, a triple expansion Allis-Reynolds engine, and also a three-stage air compressor, and the hydraulic equipment of the Henry R. Worthington laboratory. The equipment has been valued at $100,000. Columbia conferred upon Professor Hutton, in 1882, the degree of Ph.D., and upon the occasion of its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary, in 1904, the degree of Sc.D. Professor Hutton became Secretary of the Society in 1883, three years after its organization, when its offices were located at 17 Cortlandt Street. He continued to direct its activities during the years following when it was located successively at 280 Broadway (The Stewart building), 84 Madison Avenue, and 12 West 31st Street. In 1890 the house at 12 West 31st Street was purchased for $60,000, and sold in 1906 for $120,000, realizing a profit of nearly $60,000. Professor Hutton took an active part in this important and successful transaction, and became one of the Trustees of the Mechanical Engineers Library Association, organized to hold the property. One of the most remarkable events in the history of the Society was the trip made to Europe in 1889. Professor Hutton was connected with. the arrangements for this trip, which has had a wide influence in giving international recognition to the Society and establishing the bond of professional fellowship between this and the countries visited. Professor Hutton was the member appointed by this Society of the Conference and Building Committee of the United Engineering Society. This Committee was organized to plan the new Engineering Societies' Building at 29 West 39th Street, and during its erection considered the problems and attended the execution of the details. which make the building one of the most complete of modern structures. Professor Hutton is also one of the Board of Trustees, which is the holding corporation for the United Engineering Society. He declined reëlection to the office of Secretary in January 1906, and at the Annual meeting, the following December, was unanimously elected president. Professor Hutton's many years of service made it particularly fitting that he should be the first president at the opening of this new era of prestige and prosperity for engineering. In addition to the work for the Society and at Columbia University, Professor Hutton has been a contributor to scientific literature. His most important books, which have received considerable acceptance in the educational field in the United States and in England, are "The Mechanical Engineering of Power Plants," "Heat and Heat Engines," and "The Gas Engine." The first of these is used as a text book in some of the technical institutions of Japan. He was the author of two of the most important monographs of the Census of 1880, one covering machine tools and the other pumps and pumping engines. He has contributed to the Transactions of the Society over his own name, with unsigned contributions, and memorial monographs and discussions. "Mineral Wool as a Non-Conductor Around Steam Pipes;" "First Stationary Steam Engines in America;" "A Classification and Catalogue System for an Engineering Library;" "The Mechanical Engineer and the Function of the Engineering Society." He has done considerable editorial work as associate editor of Johnson's Encyclopedia, as one of the editors of scientific and engineering titles of the Century Dictionary, as Departmental editor in the Engineering Magazine, and has been a contributor to technical journals and a lecturer to scientific and popular audiences in New York and elsewhere. At the close of Professor Hutton's administration as president he was appointed by the Council to the office of Honorary Secretary. |