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Title: Morton memorial; a history of the Stevens institute of technology, with biographies of the trustees, faculty, and alumni, and a record of the achievements of the Stevens family of engineers
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Furman, Franklin De Ronde, 1870- ed
Subjects: Stevens family Morton, Henry, 1836-1902 Stevens Institute of Technology
Publisher: Hoboken, N.J., Stevens institute of technology
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ter system for long-distance transmission;on electrical distribution; means for regu-lating double-current dynamo machines; andon a method of regulating double-currentdynamo-electric machines, 1901. In 1897 heread a paper before the Electrical Section ofthe Brooklyn Institute on the subject FromCoal to the Trolley, and in the fall of 1897a paper before the Electrical Section of theFranklin Institute, Philadelphia, on TheBooster System as Applied to Electric Rail-ways ; and also contributed an article on The Economy of the Booster to the StreetRaihvay Jounial, 1898. Woodman, Durand (B.S., 80; Ph.D., 87),was born in New York city September 16,1859. He took a special two-year course inchemistry and physics after having com-pleted the regular studies of the first twoyears^of the Institutes course, at the end ofwhich time he was awarded the Priestleyprize in chemistry. In 1887 the Stevens In-stitute conferred upon him the degree ofDoctor of Philosophy. During the winter after graduation he
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House Designed and Built by F. H. Wood THE ALUMNI 623 acted as volunteer assistant to Dr. A. R.Leeds with classes in the Analytical Labora-tory. From 1881 to 1883 he was associatedwith Dr. Henry Wurtz in his second sanitarychemical investigation of the Passaic Riverwater, made for the city of Paterson, N. J.A detailed smnmary of the work was pub-lished in the Engineering and Mining Jour-nal of April 26, ^890. From 1883 to 1884 he was connected withthe office of William Farmer, gas engineer,New York, thus supplementing the chemis-try of gas manufacture with an intimateknowledge of gas works construction andgas engineering practice. From 1884 to 1886 he occupied the positionof chemist in the experimental laboratory ofthe United States Electric Light Co., New-ark, N. )., which was then under thedirection of Mr. Edward Weston, and forwhom he conducted investigations of theaction of various gases on the filaments ofthe incandescent lamp; and of vapors ofmany of the rarer elements and compo

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