Word: boulder
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Harold M. Westergaard, professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at the University of Illinois, and federal technical expert on the construction of the Boulder Dam, has been appointed Gordon McKay Professor of Civil Engineering at Harvard. The appointment will take effect next fall...
Like its bigger competitor, General Electric, Westinghouse spraddles the entire field of electrical equipment. At its tremendous East Pittsburgh works it can make anything from waterwheel generators for Boulder Dam to complete power and control apparatus for steel rolling mills. At Derry, Pa. and Emeryville, Calif, it fabricates porcelain insulators. The Chicopee Falls (Mass.) plant turns out radio equipment. The Newark (N. J.) plant manufactures metres. Power transformers and transmission equipment are produced at Sharon, Pa. Diesel-electric units, steam turbines, marine reducing gears emerge from the South Philadelphia works. A Long Island City (N. Y.) plant specializes...
...free public lecture on "Structural Problems of Boulder Dam" will be given by Harold M. Westergaard, professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in Pierce Hall...
Professor Westergaard, a native of Denmark, educated in Denmark and Germany, has been a structural engineer in Denmark, Germany, England, and the United States. He was consulting engineer on Boulder Dam, and has been a special analyst for the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads and the Engineering Foundation...
Died. Dr. Elwood Mead, 78, engineer, world authority on drainage and irrigation, since 1924 chief of the Bureau of Reclamation, supervising such projects as Boulder Dam; of thrombosis; in Washington...