. The Street railway journal . engineering. Sibley College, theengineering school of Cornell University, is an excellent ex-ample of the most advanced practice, and the apparatus in-stalled for experimental work by the students is characteristicof what is being done by the best technical schools. The accompanying illustration shows the Sprague multiple-umt outfit used at Sibley College. This outfit is of entirelymodern construction, and was purchased to show to the studentsof electric railway engineering the principles which underlythe control of heavy electric trains. The apparatus is kept in
. The Street railway journal . engineering. Sibley College, theengineering school of Cornell University, is an excellent ex-ample of the most advanced practice, and the apparatus in-stalled for experimental work by the students is characteristicof what is being done by the best technical schools. The accompanying illustration shows the Sprague multiple-umt outfit used at Sibley College. This outfit is of entirelymodern construction, and was purchased to show to the studentsof electric railway engineering the principles which underlythe control of heavy electric trains. The apparatus is kept inworking condition, both for demonstration and testing, the for-mer being considered the more important for instruction pur-poses. The large class of over one hundred is divided intosmall sections for the study of such equipments, and they arepermitted to operate it and to study the general features whichhave been previously described in the lecture room. Electricrailways is a subject which is not required of the regular elec-. MULTIPLE UNIT EQUIPMENT AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY trical engineering students at the present time, but it is re-quired in the course in railway mechanical engineering, show-ing that those in charge of that work realize the great impor-tance of this subject in relation to the motive-power depart-ments of steam railroad systems. In time it is probable thatthe college will expect all of its electrical students to take thiscourse as a part of the required work. They now take it quitegenerally as an elective subject, voluntarily carrying it in ad-dition to the heavy required work of the course. It is the in-tention of the electrical department to provide as complete anequipment for this work as the means of the college will manufacturers of railway apparatus appreciate the im-portance of this movement and are heartily co-operating inmaking it a success. This work is in charge of Prof. HenryN. Norris, of the electrical department, at Cornell University,an
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