. 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. e Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the IllinoisState University, Prof. Webb accepted the charge of the Civil Engineering School,newly established in that institution, which school soon became one of the mostprosperous and best-attended departments of the university. He held this posi-tion eight years, during which time he made a trip to Europe for the inspectionof scientific schools and for the purchas
. 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. e Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the IllinoisState University, Prof. Webb accepted the charge of the Civil Engineering School,newly established in that institution, which school soon became one of the mostprosperous and best-attended departments of the university. He held this posi-tion eight years, during which time he made a trip to Europe for the inspectionof scientific schools and for the purchase of apparatus, started a small astronomi-cal and meteorological observatory for the school, delivered several courses oforiginal lectures, partially developed his method of treating bridge stresses, andconstructed various pieces of apparatus. On April 19, 1876, he married Mary Emeline Gregory, eldest daughter ofHon. John M. Gregory, the president of the university, a lady of high scholarlyattainments and literary tastes. Six children, all now living, were born to them;their names are, Margaret, Gregory Burkitt, Dudley Lankester, Hubert Greaves,Harold Worthington, and Carolus Roe Prof. J. B. Wehb 246 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY In 1879, after spending a year in Europe with his family on leave of ab-sence, he resigned his professorship to pursue a course of advanced scientificstudy abroad, and spent over two years longer attending lectures on pure math-ematics, mathematical physics, logic, etc., and in experimental work in physicallaboratories at Heidelberg, Gottingen, Berlin, and Paris, making the acquaintanceof Professors Quincke, Schering, Schwarz, Listing, Riecke, Lotze, Clausius, Kirch-hoff, Helmholtz, Tresca, Jamin, and others. A year was spent in Helmholtzslaboratory constructing apparatus for, and working at, the then undeveloped ac-tion of an oscillating current through coils of wire and electrolytic solutions, withwhich considerable progress was made. Hi
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