Abstract :
A joint meeting of engineers was held in Boston on January 21, 1910. The organizations participating were: Boston Section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Boston Society of Civil Engineers. The attendance numbered approximately 450 members of the various societies. The technical part of the program consisted of a stereopticon lecture on “The Main and Auxiliary Machinery of the North Dakota,” by Mr. Charles B. Edwards, the designer of the great battleship´s turbines. The lecture was one which would interest not only engineers, but non-technical men as well. The North Dakota was selected by Mr. Edwards for the purpose of pointing out some of the engineering problems confronting naval designers of modern battleships. The battleship and its machinery were fully described, a stereopticon serving to illustrate the various parts. At the conclusion of the lecture, brief addresses were made by Professor Ira N. Hollis, Mr. George B. Francis, Mr. John A. Bensil, Mr. Lewis B. Stillwell, Mr. R. Clipston Sturgis, Honorable Charles F. Adams, Mr. George Westinghouse, Professor D. C. Jackson, Mr. I. E. Moultrop, and Mr. C. S. Clark. In the course of his remarks, Mr. Francis, as president of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, the oldest engineering society in the country, outlined a plan for an engineers´ club for the allied societies in Boston and its vicinity, and a motion was adopted to appoint a committee of representatives of the various societies to mature plans for the project.
