. 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. , N. Y., before entering Stevens Schoolin 1888. Immediately on completion of histhesis in 1893, and before graduation, he be-gan work for the Howe Scale Co., Rutland,Vt., as blue-print boy and helper in thedraughting-room, and in a short time be-came draughtsman, a position he retainedfor two years. In the winter of 1894-95eyesight troubles forced him to give updraughting, and he undertook a postgraduate
. 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. , N. Y., before entering Stevens Schoolin 1888. Immediately on completion of histhesis in 1893, and before graduation, he be-gan work for the Howe Scale Co., Rutland,Vt., as blue-print boy and helper in thedraughting-room, and in a short time be-came draughtsman, a position he retainedfor two years. In the winter of 1894-95eyesight troubles forced him to give updraughting, and he undertook a postgraduatecourse in physics and mathematics at Har-vard, entering the Graduate School in thefollowing fall. During the simimer of 1897he obtained a position with the Crocker-Wheeler Co., manufacturers and electricalengineers. Ampere, N. J., which led to alater permanent alliance. During his lastyear at Harvard he gave instruction, as anassistant, in the Jefferson Physical Labo-ratory. In the spring of 1898 Mr. Douglasdecided on a line of special study to be madethe subject of a thesis for the degree of Doc-tor of Science, and devised a method for de-termining the specific heats of gases at E. R. Douglas though constant, pressure, and at tempera-tures approaching the point of to the expense of necessary appa-ratus, the danger involved in the experiments, which would have occupied a period of twoyears, and also to the fact that he was of-fered a desirable permanent position with theCrocker-Wheeler Co., and that he desired ul-timately to enter the field of engineeringrather than that of pure physics, he relin-quished his hopes of the doctorate, but pre-sented more than the full requirements for,and obtained the degree of, Master of Sci-ence, given for the first time that year. During the summer of 1898 he was en-gaged in draughting and similar work forthe Crocker-Wheeler Co., and in the fall hecommenced in its laboratory a series of ex-periments on the properties o
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