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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1927)
THE BATTALION 7 N. D. COOPER, General Engineer, University of Fla. ’zz J. J. MELLON, General Engineer, Rensselaer ’24 YOUNGER COLLEGE MEN ON RECENT WESTINGHOUSE JOBS J. C. GILBERT, Service Engineer, Bliss Electrical ’22 The Womestead Steel M/7/s Inhere do young college men get in a large industrial organisation? Have they opportunity to exercise creative talent? Is individual work recognised? near T>|TAND on the hill-top Homestead, Pennsylvania, and look out over the Carnegie Steel Company’s vast works. Your eye faHs on a huge new building. ment. This Homestead electrifica tion, predominantly Westing- house, is one of the most notable in history—notable because of the number and size of the motors employed and notable because of new features of automatic control introduced for the first time. This is a type of engineering undertaken, is not rare here. Hence young men of capacity, of enterprise, of genius, are offered much to challenge their imagina tions and abilities. / / / In one unit of the Homestead Mill is a reversing motor rated at 8,000 h.p. and 40 r.p.m. (pictured above), the largest single-armature motor ever built. This motor and all the mill ac- ntrolled by two men. steel ingots as heavy here is a total of 336 new mill, of which 49,000 h.p. are main roll drive motors and 50,935 h.p. are auxiliaries. ’y, but they are quite certain that will be repaid. The secret of r. Winder’s and R. M. Dixon’s gen- y and polish lies in a little dog- jd volume of Emily Post’s “Eti- tte” which occupies a prominent ition on thair book racks. n old maid in silk teddies is like ’ in a champagne bottle.
