Engineering - Class in Session
- A-401
- Item
- 1946
Image of Engineering students seated in Room 130 during a lecture in the Engineering Building. W.B. Baker, Director, School of Agriculture, seated in foreground.
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Engineering - Class in Session
Image of Engineering students seated in Room 130 during a lecture in the Engineering Building. W.B. Baker, Director, School of Agriculture, seated in foreground.
Elevated view looking northeast of College Building at right; Power House and Engineering Building in background. [Physics Building construction in foreground]. Winter scene.
Visits of State - Governor General - Duke of Devonshire
The Governor General of Canada, the Duke of Devonshire, walking towards a car in front of the Engineering Building. Crowd in background at right.
Returned men working on and around a Case steamer inside the Engineering Building.
Department of Field Husbandry Building - Exterior
View of Field Husbandry Building at centre; National Research Council Building at left and Engineering Building at right.
Bio/Historical Note: Field Husbandry changed its name to Crop Science in 1962.
Field Husbandry Building and Engineering Building
Elevated view of Department of Field Husbandry (later Crop Science) Building and College of Engineering Building.
Ewes and lambs in a stock pen; Livestock Pavilion and old Engineering building in background.
Ewes and lambs grazing in a fenced-in enclosure. Engineering Building and Livestock Pavilion in background.
Two mages showing returned men working on a Case automobile in a motor mechanics class in the Engineering Building. Names from back of photo, "R.C. Lauder, Phillips, Keating, Burrows, Barker, Cutts".
Returned Soldiers - 16th Class - Group Photo
Returned men standing and sitting in front of Engineering Building.
Returned Soldiers - Training - Group Photo
Returned men, taking a short course, stand in front of the Engineering Building; winter scene.
Engineering Building - Construction
Work being done on Engineering Building; scaffolding and trailer in foreground.
[R.D. MacLaurin] standing (left) in front of a vehicle with a large tank attached on top which reads "Straw Gas"; [F.H. Edmunds] sitting inside. Two unidentified men walking away at right. Sign on running board reads: "McLaughlin Motor Car Model D45". Engineering Building in background.
Bio/Historical Note: Prof. R.D. MacLaurin, head, Department of Chemistry, was interested in the production of gas from straw as a fuel for heating and for engines. Though he was not alone in the research field, MacLaurin built a small extraction plant in the late 1910s and operate a McLaughlin Motor Car using straw gas. The research was promising but far from a breakthrough. The volume of gas produced was small and the mileage between fill-ups low. The most significant aspect of the research was not scientific but financial. MacLaurin felt cheated when Walter C. Murray, University President, distributed provincial research funds to several campus projects. Though he had the largest share of the grant, MacLaurin felt he deserved it all. He alleged Murray had misappropriated funds. A battle ensued for the control of the University administration. Murray was able to maintain the confidence of the Board of Governors and MacLaurin and three of his supporters - Samuel Greenway, Extension director; Ira MacKay, professor of Law; and John L. Hogg, head, Physics - were dismissed. Research into straw gas was discontinued.