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The Decreasing Of City Garbage And Sewage Sludge, O. Henry Babcock Jun 1916

The Decreasing Of City Garbage And Sewage Sludge, O. Henry Babcock

Bachelors’ Theses

At the present time there seems to be no general solution of the problem of garbage and sewage sludge disposal, and the chances are that there never will be. The problem in each city is different so that no set rule can be given that will apply to every city. Therefore it is an original problem with each city, governed by cer­tain conditions existing there.

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Design Of A 12-Story, Structural Steel Building, Frank Lankauf Jun 1916

Design Of A 12-Story, Structural Steel Building, Frank Lankauf

Bachelors’ Theses

The aim in writing this thesis has been to give as completely as possible, methods, data, and details for the design, of a twelve story, structural, steel building. The plan is one hundred and fifty-seven and a half by one hundred feet, with a fronting on two streets. As mentioned before, the building is twelve stories plus a basement or approximately one hundred and slxty feet above the sidewalk.

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Transportation And Street Design And Its Application To The City Of Milwaukee, Eugene A. Howard Jun 1916

Transportation And Street Design And Its Application To The City Of Milwaukee, Eugene A. Howard

Bachelors’ Theses

No abstract provided.

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The Attitude Of The Romantic Poets Towards Nature., Margaret Jane Wanless Jun 1916

The Attitude Of The Romantic Poets Towards Nature., Margaret Jane Wanless

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

By nature I mean the wide world of eye and ear that surrounds man, the kinship of which to man, it has been the poet's privilege to interpret. Each poet interprets differently because each sees through different glasses. "We receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live." (Coleridge – Dejec. 4 – 1)

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A Sociological Study Of Provincetown, Massachusetts, Harold A. Ferguson Jun 1916

A Sociological Study Of Provincetown, Massachusetts, Harold A. Ferguson

Historical Dissertations & Theses

The purpose of this work will be to review the most important features of the town's history, and to obtain, as far as possible, an idea of the life of the inhabitants of the early days. This, together with the character of the people, will be compared with the conditions of today. The geographical, economic, religious, political, and educational features will be dealt with, any changes noted and the various effects of the nature and changes of these factors upon each other and upon the population and social welfare of the town will be noted.

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Valuation Of Proposed Railroad From Grand Forks, N.D. To Bismarck, N.D. By Way Of Aneta And Carrington, Anthony Swendseid Jun 1916

Valuation Of Proposed Railroad From Grand Forks, N.D. To Bismarck, N.D. By Way Of Aneta And Carrington, Anthony Swendseid

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

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Thesis On Railway Construction, Morris S. Griver Jun 1916

Thesis On Railway Construction, Morris S. Griver

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Analysis Of A Chylous Fluid., Elizabeth C. Franke May 1916

Analysis Of A Chylous Fluid., Elizabeth C. Franke

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Not many analyses of chylous fluids have been published. The analyses reported here were accordingly undertaken when a somewhat unusual opportunity for obtaining chylous fluid presented itself, with the object of adding to the data already published, confirmation or correction of the usually accepted ideas regarding the composition of chyle. The samples of the fluid analysed were drawn from the thorax of a woman fifty-eight years old and were collected over a period of about three months. From the second of November until the eight of April (date of patient's death) fifteen extractions, with a total volume of forty-eight and …

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The Chemistry Of Selected Food Stuffs And Condiments, Leslie F. Rutledge May 1916

The Chemistry Of Selected Food Stuffs And Condiments, Leslie F. Rutledge

Chemistry Honors Papers

This 17 page thesis discusses the composition of various foods, including milk, butter, bread and wine.

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Preliminary Report On The Property Of The Ruby Copper Company, Colwell Arba Pierce Jan 1916

Preliminary Report On The Property Of The Ruby Copper Company, Colwell Arba Pierce

Professional Degree Theses

"The property of the Ruby Copper Company is located in Township 21 S., Range 15 E., near the southern end of the Santa Rita Mountains, Wrightson Mining District, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. It is reached by a good wagon road from the town of Pantagonia, which, because of its location on the Benson to Nogales Branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad, is the supply point for a large mining section--page 1.

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Notes On Mine Operations Of The American Zinc Company Of Tennessee, Homer Kent Sherry Jan 1916

Notes On Mine Operations Of The American Zinc Company Of Tennessee, Homer Kent Sherry

Professional Degree Theses

"The zinc ores mined at and near Mascot, Tennessee, are found in the upper part of the Knox dolomite which according to Keith was laid down in the middle Cambrian or Silurian age. This formation has a thickness of several thousand feet and is composed of layers of dolomite, limestone, sandstone, shale and some chert. The ore bearing portion at least is much folded with minor faulting and high brecciation. The axis of the folds lie Northeast by Southwest with the faulting in the same direction. The ore being mined is found on the Southeast dip in a fairly definite …

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Comparison Of Operating Expenses And Capital Expenditures Of Two Different Types Of Boiler Rooms Covering Extensions Expected During The Next Twenty Years, George Hewitt Boyer Jan 1916

Comparison Of Operating Expenses And Capital Expenditures Of Two Different Types Of Boiler Rooms Covering Extensions Expected During The Next Twenty Years, George Hewitt Boyer

Professional Degree Theses

"This thesis applies to a central power station located in a rapidly growing manufacturing city with a present population of 40,000. The station is connected by high voltage transmission lines with six hydro and steam generating stations located in other cities. These transmission lines are mainly for emergency purposes so that this report considers that the station here studied will carry its full load. The boiler room is the only part of the station considered in this thesis as a previous study showed that there was ample space in the engine room for turbo-generator for years to come"--Introduction, page 1.

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Cyaniding The Buckhorn Clay, Paul Richardson Cook Jan 1916

Cyaniding The Buckhorn Clay, Paul Richardson Cook

Professional Degree Theses

"The Buckhorn, Nevada, gold mine is peculiar in being a shallow kaolinized mass of material with basalt walls, having no direct connection with any of the usual gold bearing rocks, the average ore containing 16% water of hydratum. the cyaniding of this hydrant clayey material offered unusual difficulties compared with the usual gold quartz ore of Nevada. The ore body was thoroughly developed; then the mill was built according to the latest cyanide practice, with such changes as was thought the peculiar nature of this ore demanded. Upon starting the mill, the ore proved more difficulty to handle than had …

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A Wet Process For The Extraction Of Mercury, Robert Glenn Sickly Jan 1916

A Wet Process For The Extraction Of Mercury, Robert Glenn Sickly

Professional Degree Theses

"In this paper it will be the aim of the writer to deal as exclusively as possible with the Mercury Extraction Process as applied at the High-Grade Plant of the Buffalo Mines, Limited, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada. it will be necessary at times to refer to the treatment of the ore for the extraction of silver"--Introduction, page 2.

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Mill Test And Conclusion Leading To The Design Of An Addition To Florida Pebble Phosphate Concentrator, Norman L. Ohnsorg Jan 1916

Mill Test And Conclusion Leading To The Design Of An Addition To Florida Pebble Phosphate Concentrator, Norman L. Ohnsorg

Professional Degree Theses

"The fact that 30% to 50% of the phosphate mined in this district is lost as tailing due to an inadequate method of concentration has caused no small concern and many attempts have been to develop a method, of economic value, for saving the phosphate lost"--Existing Conditions of Milling, Page 1.

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A Report On "La Cotabambas Auraria" Mining Company, Hector Julio Boza Jan 1916

A Report On "La Cotabambas Auraria" Mining Company, Hector Julio Boza

Professional Degree Theses

"The present report, relative to the studies on the value of Cochasayhuas and descriptive of what was discovered and worked by me in that mining district, is written in fulfilment [sic] the commission which was entrusted to me at the begining [sic] of the month of April last. Special circumstances give to the studies made and conclusions formed a certain and appreciable value. There already existing in the Company's works various crushing machines and small tanks for cyaniding, I was able to see in great part the results of my tests with the metal in the chemical laboratory, in the …

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Construction And Maintenance Of Kansas City Boulevard Pavements, Ralph Robert Benedict Jan 1916

Construction And Maintenance Of Kansas City Boulevard Pavements, Ralph Robert Benedict

Professional Degree Theses

"In the first years of the history of the Park and Boulevard System of this city, road surfaces for boulevards received careful consideration for people were not satisfied with a good earth road well maintained. As the years have passed and the great changes have come in the methods of transportation, the evolution of pavements has had to keep pace with these changes"--page 1.

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Method And Cost Of Rock Excavation, Inlet Swamp Drainage District, Lee County, Illinois, Arch W. Naylor Jan 1916

Method And Cost Of Rock Excavation, Inlet Swamp Drainage District, Lee County, Illinois, Arch W. Naylor

Professional Degree Theses

"The Inlet Swamp Drainage District, comprising 32000 acres of rich muck land, lies in Lee County Illinois, between the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, the Illinois Central Railway and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. The District is fifteen miles long and from one to five miles wide. The watershed has approximately five times the area of the swamp, and in early days, as much as one-half the thirty two thousand acres was under water for practically the entire year. It was not unusual in the Spring, for the swamp to be under from two to five feet of water. …

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Land Drainage In Central Iowa, Ernst Lorenze Chamberlain Jan 1916

Land Drainage In Central Iowa, Ernst Lorenze Chamberlain

Professional Degree Theses

"The problems encountered in land drainage are comparatively simple when seen from an engineering point of view. Most problems do not require a fine scientific or mathematical analysis but are rather questions to be decided by good judgment or practical common sense. The most difficult problems encountered are financial, legal and political, therefore, in this paper considerable attention is paid to the Iowa drainage law, facts learned from practical drainage men and to the organization and operation of the different financing systems for drainage"--page 1.

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An Investigation Of Blended Cements, Byron Lee Ashdown Jan 1916

An Investigation Of Blended Cements, Byron Lee Ashdown

Bachelors Theses

"It is generally accepted to be a fact that the coarser particles of a cement are practically inert, and that it is only the finest particles that possess the cementing qualities. Exactly what percentage of the whole is active, or possesses the cementing properties, is not known. Since but few experiments pertaining to such have been performed there is consequently little data to be found"--Introduction, page 3.

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Modern Phases Of The Rule Against Perpetuities And Restraints Upon Alienation Applied To Entrusted Properties In The State Of California, Adolph Canelo Jan 1916

Modern Phases Of The Rule Against Perpetuities And Restraints Upon Alienation Applied To Entrusted Properties In The State Of California, Adolph Canelo

Student Theses

There is perhaps no legal subject more interesting nor important in the sphere of trust activity than the so-called "Rule against Perpetuities". This rule is colorful in its historical antecedents, and in its present form, as part and parcel of the common law, is the creature of necessity evolved to prevent property owners from placing their property perpetually beyond the reach of their descendants, or other beneficiaries. The doctrine compromises the conflict between those on the one hand who have amassed property, and who ftesire that the succeeding generations might enjoy the use and benefit thereof without possibility of the …

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Transformer Connections, Frank W. Burns Jan 1916

Transformer Connections, Frank W. Burns

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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The Use Of Red Lake As A Storage Reservoir, Herman F. Wolff Jan 1916

The Use Of Red Lake As A Storage Reservoir, Herman F. Wolff

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Sparking Potentials At High Frequency, Harry J. Read Jan 1916

Sparking Potentials At High Frequency, Harry J. Read

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Correlation Of Certain Characters In Ears Of Moody County White Dent Corn, Jens L. Bolland Jan 1916

Correlation Of Certain Characters In Ears Of Moody County White Dent Corn, Jens L. Bolland

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The idea has been prevalent that the most cylindrical ears of corn have the largest percentage of corn on them, and it has been the purpose of this study to determine the correlation coefficient between the degree of taper and the percentage of shelled corn on ears of Moody County White Dent.

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Creole Folklore In Phonetic Transcription., Adams Shelby Holmes Trappey Jan 1916

Creole Folklore In Phonetic Transcription., Adams Shelby Holmes Trappey

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

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Some Chemical Problems In Geology, Reginald Scott Dean Jan 1916

Some Chemical Problems In Geology, Reginald Scott Dean

Masters Theses

"This thesis is in the main a compilation of the views held at this institution in regard to the problems discussed as interpreted by the author. No claims for originality are made except in the manner of presentation as the material used has been obtained by conference and class room work with Professor V. H. Gottschalk and Professor G. H. Cox and also to some extent with H. A. Buehler, State Geologist. On the other hand the material is an expression of these ideas as assimilated by the author and hence may in certain cases differ radically from the views …

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Design Of A Wooden Roof Truss Materials, William Herman Meyer Jan 1916

Design Of A Wooden Roof Truss Materials, William Herman Meyer

Bachelors’ Theses

No abstract provided.

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The Greek Contribution To The English Romantic Movement, Amanda Louise Zabel Jan 1916

The Greek Contribution To The English Romantic Movement, Amanda Louise Zabel

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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The Diplomatic Relations Between China And Japan Since Russo-Japanese War, Yu M. Chen Jan 1916

The Diplomatic Relations Between China And Japan Since Russo-Japanese War, Yu M. Chen

Graduate Thesis Collection

The relations between China and Japan in a political or diplomatic sense are only of modern origin. During long centuries the dealings between these two countries were very unimportant, if not non-existent. Nippon, in the first instance, had borrowed from the Middle Kingdom of her literature, her arts, her fashions and her philosophies.

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