. 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. in Venezuela, 1887-90; build-ing roadways, dams, and drains, devisingrolling sheds for cacao and coffee terraces,and conducting agricultural and other specialengineering investigations in Venezuela,1891-94; and from 1895 to date has been inthe employ of the United States governmentas well as being engaged in private specialinvestigations including the promotion ofa new brewing system, the cultivation ofs
. 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. in Venezuela, 1887-90; build-ing roadways, dams, and drains, devisingrolling sheds for cacao and coffee terraces,and conducting agricultural and other specialengineering investigations in Venezuela,1891-94; and from 1895 to date has been inthe employ of the United States governmentas well as being engaged in private specialinvestigations including the promotion ofa new brewing system, the cultivation ofsingle-cell microbes and their application tospecial fermentation; wine-making withoutfortification; bottling without admixture ofair; sterilization of bottles, barrels, etc., witha gas; the preservation of grape juice andother fruit juices without heating, sweeten-ing, or preservatives; and the burning of coalin ordinary practice by distilling it into gases. Ramirez, Nestor (, 95), was withthe Westing-house Electric & ManufacturingCo., 1895-96; and since then has been lo-cated at Caracas, Venezuela. Randolph, Lingan Strother (, 83),was born in Martinsljurg, W. \ May 13,. L. S. Randolph 1859. He served an apprenticeship of threeyears to the machinist trade in the shops ofthe Baltimore & Ohio Railroad before enter-ing Stevens Institute; was engineer of testsin the motive-power department of the New York, Lake Erie, & Western Railroad, wherehe organized a laboratory and put in force asystem of inspection and tests of oils andlubricants, besides doing much experimentalwork in other lines, 1883-85; was superin-tendent of motive power with the FloridaRailway & Navigation Co., now the FloridaCentral & Peninsular Railroad, with head-quarters at Fernandina, Fla., where he re-organized his department and changed thegauge of the engines and cars of the roadfrom five feet to four feet nine inches (thenadopted as the standard gauge of all south-ern railroads), 1885-87. He also de
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