. 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. ese thirty years almost every improvement in locks and lockmakingmachinery has come from the Stamford works. What Mr. Towne has accom-plished in useful results is shown in the thirteen volumes of the Yale & TowneManufacturing catalogue, in which more than ten thousand separate arti-cles of manufacture are illustrated and described. Mr. Towne has been prominently identified with several engineering s
. 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. ese thirty years almost every improvement in locks and lockmakingmachinery has come from the Stamford works. What Mr. Towne has accom-plished in useful results is shown in the thirteen volumes of the Yale & TowneManufacturing catalogue, in which more than ten thousand separate arti-cles of manufacture are illustrated and described. Mr. Towne has been prominently identified with several engineering socie-ties, and has filled with dignity many positions of honor and responsibility. Oneof the early members of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, he be-came its president in 1888 and was made chairman of the large party of Ameri-can engineers, representing the three great American engineering societies, whichvisited Europe in 1889. His contributions to technical literature, standard andcurrent, though mainly relating to his own work, have shown a scholarly mind,a rare breadth of culture, and a clear appreciation of the relation of theory topractice in useful ALFRED R. WOLFF, Trustee, ipoo- (For biography of Mr. Wolff see section devo ted tothe Alumni.) A. R. WOLFF i6o THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
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