Purdue debris . HIE ELECTRICAL BUILDING 38. rai a m. It was in the year 1888 that the Purdue catalogue first announced the establishment ola course in Electrical Engineering at which a half dozen admirers of Ben Franklin and hiskite, resorted hither to become familiar with that new and potent agency. They found thedepartment cradled in the basement of the Pharmacy building, where the Kelvin balancewas used alternately to weigh quinine or measure electrical currents, and Leyden jars assumed the additional function of con-taining cinnamon bark or headache tablets. The school was an outgrowth of
Purdue debris . HIE ELECTRICAL BUILDING 38. rai a m. It was in the year 1888 that the Purdue catalogue first announced the establishment ola course in Electrical Engineering at which a half dozen admirers of Ben Franklin and hiskite, resorted hither to become familiar with that new and potent agency. They found thedepartment cradled in the basement of the Pharmacy building, where the Kelvin balancewas used alternately to weigh quinine or measure electrical currents, and Leyden jars assumed the additional function of con-taining cinnamon bark or headache tablets. The school was an outgrowth of the Physics Department, carrying the theoretical and experimental of Physics into itspractical and commercial applications. Hence the laboratory work of stroking a pussy cat the wrong way, deepened intothat of lifting nails with a horse shoe magnet. But the life of the infant course was not long hazarded by its proximity to the drugs. In 1889 the Electrical Build-ing was erected, which gave ample room for the expansion of the growing schoo
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