. 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. wed upon me. At the banquet following the presentation exercises many unique featureswere introduced. These included a model of a blast-furnace about six feet high,occupying the centre of the large central table. From this model was tapped punch in the regular manner of the modern blast-furnace into ladles operated 6o THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY by working gears and mounted on trucks. The trucks
. 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. wed upon me. At the banquet following the presentation exercises many unique featureswere introduced. These included a model of a blast-furnace about six feet high,occupying the centre of the large central table. From this model was tapped punch in the regular manner of the modern blast-furnace into ladles operated 6o THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY by working gears and mounted on trucks. The trucks were also correct workingmodels and ran the full length of the table on miniature tracks. The blast fur-nace is shown in the accompanying group of illustrations, as are also several otherfeatures briefly described in the following lines. Another model showed a Bessemer converter mounted on trunnions throughwhich the blast-pipe led to an apparatus that had been devised to produce a blow throwing out flames several feet high, in which were glowing iron excellent imitation of a converter in action was thus produced. This convert-er, on being turned down, poured out fancy Models of Bessemer Converter, Ingot Molds, Open-Hearth Furnace, and Furnace Still a third Avas a reproduction of an open-hearth furnace, lit interiorlywith red electric lights, so that when the counterweighted door was raised a per-fect representation of the glowing furnace was giA^en. From this furnace camefried oysters. Models of ingot-molds, ladles, etc., did service at the various tables ascontaining-vessels for various items on th_e menu. The ice-cream was servedfrom T-rail forms of usual size in cross-section, and about eighteen inches number of ordinary spike-nail kegs were filled with bread and cake in the formof railroad spikes of actual size. All of these unicjue and intensely interesting features of the banquet origi-nated with President Morton and were executed under his super
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