Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-06-19
TECH" PROFESSOR
COMES TO ACADEMY
Prof. H. A. Everett Resigns Tech
to Come Here.
FOR MARINE ENGINEERING DEPT.
For Four Years He Has Been Official
Yacht Measurer for All Major
Easten Clubs.


The Presidents office of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology an
nounces the resignation of Assistant
Professor Harold A. Everett, OF the De-
partment of Naval Architecture and
Marine Engineering
ProfessorE Everett has been appointed
10 the position of Professor of Marine
Engineering in the postgraduate de-
partment of the United States Naval
Academy. Professor Everett. born in
Manchester. n. H., is one of the grad
uates of NJ. /. T.. who, after some ex-
perience in the outside world, return
ed 10 the Institute as a member of the
instructing force.
He was of the class of 1902and after
taking MS degree visited the ship
yards in Europea and the next year was
in the yard of the Fore River Com
pany, his special work being the in
stallation of the auxiliary machinery
in the torppedo-boat destroyers Law
renee and Macdonald.
He went next to the NewYork Ship
building Company in the scientific
department his work there being
computations and estimates of stabil-
ity, strength, etc. He then returned
to Technology and has been since in
its service, first for two years as as
sistant, then tor six years as instruc-
tor in naval engineering, and since
1911, assistant professor.
In addition TO his regular work, Pro
fessor Everett interested himself dur
ing summer seasons with occupations
IN line with this, spending one season
with the Lighthouse Engineers in
Philadelphia, and a second in the yard
of William Denny & Bro, of Dunbar
ton, an unusual privilege, Sir Arthur
Denny stating that only one other
American had ever been permitted TO
do this. and that was one Admiral
B0wles. A third summer was spent in
charge of one of the army engineer
ing parties engaged in surveying the
lower reaches of the Ohio river.
Other summers were occupied in the
experiments with the Tech navy. the
Froude and the Fulton. of which he
had charge under Prof c. II. Pea
body, with exceedingly interesting and
important results. For four years MIR.
Everett has been official yacht meas
urer for all the major eastern clubs.
and in the course of which work he
has developed a number of new meth
DDS and new measuring devices. One
of these is a quarter-beam calipers.
labor-saving device for boats of or
dinary dimensions, and for draft
measurements he worked out a nv
pothenuse method of catching a rod to
the keel and measuring it's angle and
its distance from the hull He sug-
gested and used ordinary surveying
methods for determining lines OF
boats on the ways, setting up his tran
sit on base-line and taking angles
and distances. In one instance he de-
tected an error of one-eighth of an
inch I'M the painted waterline of boat
He also adapted the chronograph to
| boat testing, an instrument that re
cords time, revolutions os the screw
marks the completion OF a cycle of the
work and in the case of the Froude
shows the amount of thrust. The OBJ
servations with the Froude and the
Fulton have already been described
These were the little Technology boats
in the Charles river basin, boats which
were floating laboratories where fuel
consumption power production and
transmission and losses of various
kinds were investigated. together with
| effect of form of hull. place of propel-
lor, etc.
The Froude showed that steamships
in general are carrying their propel.
/ lors in not the most efficient place
while the Fulton furnished facts abou
twing and dispeling the fancy OF tow.
boat constructors, that steel is not ap
plicable TO these boats.
| Professor Everett's published paper.
include Tests on the S. S. Harvard
Effects of Waves on a Tafrail Log.
The Stability of Lifeboats.' while an
other in press is the consideration o.
sails, the experimental portion o
which was carried on at the NJ. l. T
Aerodyamical Laboratory. the first ex
periments Of the kind to have beer
made anywhere.
The position TO which Mr. Everett
comes has been established at the Ma
val Academy for men who have beer
at sea for three years or more sine,
graduation. II has had two previous
meumbents, but is now enlarged in II.
scope and = naval architect appointed
the previous men holding the position
having been mechanical engineers.