Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-06-02
THE PRACTICAL TRAINING.
GIVEN BY THE MIDDIES IN
MARINE ENGINEERING.
The Board of Visitors Shown Thi
Work Yesterday In The
Machine Shop.

No feature of the work done by the
midshipmen at the Naval Academy
gives a better illustration of the prac-
teal work of the institution than that
of the DEPARTMENT of Marine Engi-
neering. The members of he board of
visitors were yesterday afternoon
shown this work by an exhibition of
steam engineering in the machine shop
under the direction of the department,
Commander J. X. Barton.
The exhibition was given in the new
Engineering Bnilding. This is the
first year that the department has oc-
cupied its new building. The officers
in charge are experts and enthusiasts
| in their work The course in marine
engineering is designed to begin at
| the bottom, which means the prepare
| tion of the original drawings of ma
chinery. Ii progresses through the
| pattern shop, the foundry, the black
| smith aud machine shops, until the
| graduate is capable of not only direct
| ing, but also of carrying out every
| operation connected with the construc-
| tion of the most intricate marine ma
| chine.
The drawing room of the new
| building occupies three sides aud con-
| tains more space than formerly the
| whole of the marine engineering
| building contained. The charts and
actual drawings of the midshipmen of
/ the fourth class were shown and the
| drawings of parts of machinery exc
/ cuted during the seventh month of the
| course called forth expressions of
| praise.
| The next step is to the pattern room,
/ where the midshipman in his third
/ class. or second year, executes in
/ wood the model of the parts of ma
/ chinery which he has drawn. The
| work of the foundry is then shown.
/ The work extends to the assembling OF
| the parts into perfectly working ma
| chinery, and each year the midship-
men undertake or complete some i'm
/ portant construction. This year they
| are working upon a 200.horsepower
engine of the triple. expansion type,
| the most ambitious work yet attempt q
The model room is equipped with
| working models of the most modern
marine machinery and with fullsized
| or reduced sections of types of marine
architecture. Most of these have been
presented by the various manufactur-
| ers of naval machinery. The models
| are all connected with compressed air
tanks and do their work upon the
turning of valve.
| complete catalogue of the models
| would fill volume, but among the
most interesting are two turbine en-
| ignes of l3 and 10 horsepower, the
| type of engine being still in the exper-
| mental stage, it not yet being set
| tied that the United States will adopt
| it for any of it's vessels. Another
1 ~ g s,,fn N a "A
| distillation and refrigerating appa-
ratus. Under process of construction
| is tank into which Iuns a shaft upon
which the different types Of propellers
can be used and tested. Other work
ing models represent air-circulating
pumps, boiler pumps and steam steer
ing devices.
Full-size cross sections were shown
of the two types of boilers used in the
| Navy of the United States-the Nj
chausse type, used in the vessels con-
structed by the Cramp Shipbuilding
| Company, and the Babcock and Will
| cox boiler, installed by the Newport
| News Company. To show how com
pletely mp to-date this model room is,
the latest addition is a working model
of the engine of the newly construct
ed battleship Connecticut.
While merely few of the larger
models are mentioned, the exhibits
do not end here, for the room contains
samples of every part Of marine ma
chinery and of every possible device
that could be used in connection with
it. 1t is already fact that as re-
suit of the splendid spractical training
received in engineering at the Naval
Academy. its graduates can command
splendid positions with the great con-
Germs of the country if they leave the
| Navy, but, with the present equip
ment, there can be no doubt that An
napolis will send out the best-fitted
men in the world in the technique OF
| marine engineering