Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-03-18
RESEARCH URGED
FOR ENGINEERS
DEAN GOETHE ASKS VAST LABOR.
AToRY WHICH WILL HELP IN.
pusTRIAL CORPORATIONS
NEEDS s5OO,OOO TO START
His plan Based on Famous Schools OF
Engineering In Germany

New York-Research laboratories
The equal of those of Germany, are un
der consideration by Columbia Uni
versity according to the report OF
Dean Frederick A. Goethe of the grad
uate engineering school.
After outlinging the successful re
search work accomplished by DR.. Wal.
ter Rittman and Profs. Armstrong
and Pupin in the field of wireless tel
ephony and telegraphy. Dean Goetze's
report says:
There is no doubt that much could
and should be done to extend our en-
cheering research and to make 1t OF
even greater value to the university
and to the industries of our country
MANY of us are firmly convinced
that this can best be accomplished by
establishing, on a site of ample era,
easily accessible to the university,
but among neighbors who will not
be too particular as to the smells and
noises which we will create, Iabora.
tories adequately equipped for all
branches of industrial engineering re.
search and administered by the heads
of four engineering departments, to
which manufacturers and practising
engineers could turn for the solution
of problems which are beyond the
scope of their equipment or the capa
tilities of their force.
I'm my mind these laboratories
should be patterned after those of the
German Reichsanstalt, connected with
The Technische Hochshule at Char.
lottenburg, and located in the out
skirts of Berlin.
IF Columbia were to establish lab
oratories of this kind, equipped with
every facility for experimentation
and research with the staff of oul
technical schools available for con
sultation and advice manufacturers
and individual experts would be glad
to avail themselves of these facilities
and to establish research fellowships
for solving their industrial and engin
eering problems.
These laboratories should be de-
yeloped around special technical Ii
brary, the business of which should
pc to collect, compile and classify In
way to make it best available every
crap of information bearing upon the
special problem to be investigated
At the present time our technical II
brary facilities are rather meagre for
a school of our standing.
1.-The cost will depend largely upon
the site, which should be close to tide
water and railroad facilities. The site
at the northeast corner of 10th street
and Broadway has been tentatively
assigned for the next applied science
building. A building on this site
would have to conform with Hamil-
ton, Kent and Journalism and would
cost at least 100000. With the same
amount of money we could buy site
with railroad and water facilities
within five minutes walk of the UNI
versity, erect on ii a building twice
The size of a modern factory con-
struction and have about $4,000 left
FOR equipment.
I'VE should however, make provis
ion for extension and endowment as
well, and from 100000 to $5,0O0000
will be needed. 1t would not all DC
required at once, but in installments
as the work developed and justified
the expenditure. No greater or more
enduring monument could be erected
by the public spirited persons who
would equip and endow laboratories
for this purpose"