Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-08-08
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.


Pertinent Suggestions to Young Men
Who Are i4ooilils That Way.
The inducements offered 10y the pro-
fession Of electrical engineering are
drawing each year an increasing num-
Der of young men into technical study
Of the subject. A word to such may not
be out of place. You must remember
that the great electrical industries IN
which Won hope To see active service are
the growth OF hardly n,pre than 4 single
decade; vet. while this gives high prom
Use for the future, II IS clear that the pio-
neering period is for the most part gone.
While each wear viii see an extension
and strengthening of electrical interests,
they are steadily settling into more con-
servative and business like shape. Do
not. therefore, look for the sudden and
brilliant success that came TO reward
some of the early workers in the elec.
trical field, but rather for the steady
labor and well earned prizes that pertain
to serious and faithful professional work.
Electrical industry has two widely
different phases-business and technical.
In the former an electrical education may
or may not be Of marked service-one u
the most active and successful electrical
business lnen we know was, until quite
recently, the manager of a brewery
the latter it is no longer convenience,
but necessity Fifteen years ago 81
ituc was known Of the practical appli
cation Of electricity that quick invent
i've mind. with no more technical train
ing than might be gained by the expert
ence Of telegraph office, could strike
On. in new lines Of progress with every
prospect Of success. To-day, while tho
field is very, very far from being fully
explored, good work cannot he done
without studying and profting by the
| results of that fifteen years of marvel
| Gus development.
He who starts today with the training
| that would have meant success then vii
| probably meet dismal failure now. There
| fore, i'll taking up the study of electrical
engineering remember that the mort
.areful and thorough work you do th'
| better the chance in the future. And d,
not be deluded into the idea that You
should hurry through your training an(
learn practical electricity in the work
shop" Yon can learn more that Will b,
of servic" to you bya years careful worl
| in good laboratory than in five year
i'll an electrical mandatory. Do no
| expect to leave the laboratory with al
intimate knowledge Of any electrical svs
tcm-you Will not have it, hut you vii
have acquired what is Of vastly greater
| value, that firm grasp Of the genera
| principles that will enable you TO SEIZE
the details of any system with rapidit,
that viii surprise you.
Study then the broad principles IN
volved in applied electricity and the the
| oretieal basis on which they rest. Thi
| is the electrical side Of your education
But there is another, every whit as i'm
| portant. Electrical engineering is me
| chanical engineering. plus electricity
and while, perhaps, Sir William Thorn
sons statement that mechanical en-
| gineer can acquire all tho necessar,
| electrical training in six months or 50 i
rather strongly put, there is a deal o
truth in it. y sound iden of mechanical
| principles is very necessary to success il
practical electricity. and the ideal train
ing then would build firm superstruct
IRE of electricity on foundation of me
chanical engineering. Put all the tim
you can spare. therefore. on n thorough
training in some one Of the excellen
schools that are available. and when 70,
| haya cn,O1,IntnJ II MAX ~, vOr,r mind II