Guggenheim school opens

The new building for the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics at New York University, University Heights, New York, was formally opened on the 4th of June, when Mr. Guggenheim formally presented it to Chancellor Brown. Harry Guggenheim, son of the donor, pressed an electric button setting the great wind tunnel in operation. The new building is 120 by 50 ft. with a first story projection for the wind tunnel. Its equipment is complete for instruction, test and research work, with wind-tunnel of double return type, propeller-testing equipment, an apparatus for testing airscrews, a structural laboratory, power plant laboratory, a full-flight and instrument laboratory, airship laboratory for gas diffusion and a model ship for the construction of wind-tunnel models. Doctor Elmer A. Sperry, Fellow of the Institute, was one of three representatives from the Founder Societies, Professor Alexander Klemin and Mr. Calvin W. Rice, Secretary of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers also being present.