Biographical Record of the Officers and Graduates of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1824-1886W.H. Young, 1887 - 614 pages |
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Academy afterward Albany American Society Amos Eaton appointed April assistant engineer attended August born in Troy Boston Brooklyn canal CHARLES chemistry Chicago chief engineer Church Civil Engineers Columbia county Conn construction Cuba daughter death December degree of A. M. designed died Eaton EDWARD elected engaged engi entered the Institute Erie February geological GEORGE graduated Havana HENRY Insti Institute in September Institute September instructor iron JAMES January John Joseph July June Lansingburgh lectures Louis manufacture March Married Mary Mass Mining Engineers natural sciences navy neer November October Ohio P. O. address Penn Pennsylvania railroad Philadelphia Pittsburgh position practice Prepared president profession professor remained Rensselaer county Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute river road Saratoga county Seminary Society of Civil spring street superintendent survey tion Troy Academy trustee tute Union College United United States navy Warren Washington West WILLIAM Williams College York city
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Page 49 - He received a good elementary education in the schools of his native state, and took up the study of law. He was admitted to the bar, and entered upon the practice of his profession in Ohio, where he remained until 1855.
Page 15 - The said board of trustees shall have power to establish a department of mathematical arts, for the purpose of giving instruction in engineering and technology, as a branch of said institute; and to receive and apply donations for procuring instruments and other facilities suitable for giving such instruction in a practical manner, and to authorize the president...
Page 121 - This publication marked an era in the progress of Geology in this country. It is, in some respects, inaccurate, but it must be remembered that its talented and indefatigable author was without a guide in exploring the older formations, and that he described rocks which no geologist had, at that time, attempted to classify. Rocks were then classified chiefly by their mineralogical characters, and the aid which the science has since learned to derive from fossils in determining the chronology and classification...
Page 122 - Professor Eaton enumerated nearly all the rocks in Western New York, in their order of succession, and his enumeration has, with one or two exceptions, proved correct. It is a matter of surprise that he recognized, at so early a period, the old red sandstone on the Catskill Mountains, a discovery, the reality of which has since been proved by fossil tests.
Page 34 - We are somewhat apprehensive that her properties for sea are not such as a sea-going vessel should possess. But she may be moved from one place to another on the coast in smooth water. We recommend that an experiment be made with one battery of this description on the terms proposed, with a guarantee and forfeiture in case of failure in any of the properties and points of the vessel as proposed.
Page 120 - Prof. Eaton was among the first in this country to study nature in the field with his classes. In pursuance of this idea, he used to make an annual excursion with Rensselaer School, sometimes leading these expeditions in person, at others deputing some competent teacher to take the lead. The cause of natural history in Williams College owes, undoubtedly, a good deal to Prof. Eaton. I think his zeal in the department of botany led Prof. Dewey to direct his discriminating mind to the study of plants,...
Page 133 - Ebenezer. Agriculture of New York; comprising an account of the classification, composition and distribution of the soils and rocks and the natural waters of the different geological formations, together with a condensed view of the meteorology and agricultural productions of the State.
Page 140 - It was also Hall, who, according to Hunt, "laid the -grounds for a rational theory of mountains, which must be regarded as one of the most important contributions to geological science. "* Of the honors that he received, both in this country and abroad, no mention is necessary, but it may well be recalled that he represented our Association at the International Geological Congress held in St. Petersburg, in 1897, of which body he was a founder and its president in 1876. He died in...
Page 92 - After leaving college, Holley entered the shops of Corliss & Nightingale, at Providence. They were at the time engaged in the attempt to apply to the locomotive engine the principles of the variable cut-off, so successful in the stationary engine. Holley entered the locomotive department, where he served both as draughtsman and machinist, and subsequently took the
Page 122 - ... classification of rocks, was scarcely known here, and had only just begun to be appreciated in Europe. We are indebted, nevertheless, to Professor Eaton for the commencement of that independence of European classification which has been found indispensable in describing the New York system. For he remarks : " After examining our rocks with as much care and accuracy as I am capable of doing, I venture to say that we have at least five distinct and continuous strata, neither of which can with propriety...