Wednesday, Nov. 7, 1951 University Daily Kansan
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improvements Underway On Museum Panorama
Reconstruction and improvement are underway on the world's most unified mounted animal display, the panorama of North american animals in Dyche museum.
The latest change in the panorama is the addition of scenic background by Sam Dickinson, museum artist, with the change made in e wall structure near the entrance to the display.
iditional background has been added to the arctic display. On the with a large black cloth covers a action of the slanted glass panels. In the center of the black cloth is rectangular opening looking into a miniature of the proposed North american tropical addition to the norama. The miniature, remarkable for its realism and detail, was ill by George Young, museum xidermist, to the scale of one to 12. Several field trips have been made Mexico to collect animals for the habitat and to obtain sketches, films, ecimens and other scientific data ith for the habitat and for research. Uncovered in the proposed habitat all be three pecatties (wild pigs); on monkeys, a tapir, one or more apical deer, a macaw and other apical birds. The deer to be in the cup measure only 21 inches high the shoulder, normal for the tropal deer.
One of the most difficult parts of instructing the habitat, other than nancing the work, will be painting the background, said Mr. Dickinson. The tropical setting to be depicted is extremely complex, involving painting hundreds of leaves, vines and owls.
Much effort will need to be put
Museum Shows Mexican Scenes
Fifteen oil paintings by Raymond astwood, professor of drawing and painting, are featured this month at the Museum of Art. Included are eight painted in Mexico.
The Mexican scenes were painted while Mr. and Mrs. Eastwood were visiting Mexico last summer. Because Mr. and Mrs. Eastwood were here during the rainy season, many of the paintings show unusually wavetr and clouded scenes.
Mr. and Mrs. Eastwood spent most of their vacation in Cuernavaca, a resort near Mexico City, but traveled to other sections of the country. The marine paintings in the exhibit were one at Sa nFelipe, in lower California.
The seven paintings not painted in Mexico were done in previous years in the United States.
Beware Of Oil Find, Geologist Explains
Bloomington, Ind.—(U.P.)If you're tching to go "wild-canting" for oil, give it up unless you can afford it manically, a geologist says.
"Wildcattining for oil costs too much, too often results in dry holes and ays off too little even if oil is truck," said Dallas Fiandt Jr., of the Indiana Geological Survey.
KOREAN WAR veteran, S/Sgt. Thomas Davies, Dover, N. J., who was felled by frostbite last winter in Korea, locks out from a cold chamber at Brooklyn navy yard as he tests navy-developed uniform for the coldest temperatures.
forth in creating the plant life to be placed in the habitat. Plastic replicas of leaves and flowers must be made. Wire will be wrapped with cotton and covered with liquid to form stems and vines.
Each plastic leaf, stem and petal of which there are more than 10,000 will first be sprayed white and then the natural color,
On the north wall of the hall leading into the panorama is a huge lifel zone map of North America in a glass case. On it is marked the region inhabited by each type of animal represented in the panorama. The theory behind the map is that geographic distribution of plants and animals is dependent upon temperature.
On either side of the map are
Among the animals which may be seen in the panorama are walrus, seals, muskox, polar bears, Greenland caribou (moose), mountain sheep and Alaskan goats, bison, antelope; wolves, sea lions, squirrels, black bears, grizzly bears, Santa Claus reindeer, possums, wildcats,
small paintings by Mr. Dickinson of the animals in the display, and on the right side is a detailed explanation of the life-zone theory.
beavers, porcupines, fox and several bird species.
For realistic effect, the panorama of North American animals lacks almost nothing. Rock ledges, trees, ponds and the painted background blend together well.
The animals in the display appear ready to jump at the first sudden movement from the spectator. Perhaps the one thing lacking is real snow for the polar bears.
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M.E.'s AT DU PONT [2] Challenging variety of problems solved by research and development engineers
As a student of mechanical engineering, do you look forward to a future in research, development, plant engineering or production supervision?
In the Digest this month, we'd like to discuss the ample outlet Du Pont offers your talents in these fields.
Let's talk about research and development together because they often overlap indistinguishably. Both these fields deal with mechanisms for making products. In some cases, original equipment is designed for a new product. In others, machinery used in making existing products is improved to provide better quality at lower cost.
This design and development work may call for studies of the vibration of
These three examples, selected from
machine elements, equipment, structural members and structures. Or there may be need for application of electronics, instrumentation, operation of test equipment and testing of experimental machines. In much of this activity there is close cooperation with other engineers, participation in group conferences, joint analysis of data, and issuance of recommendations.
J. D. McHugh, B.S.M.E., Rochester '50 (center), consults with D. B.Bertien, B.S.M.E., Purdue '36 (right), and J. F. Crawley, Jr., M.S.C.H.E., '47, V.P.I., on installation of equipment in the field.
Du Pont research and development engineers keep informed of developments through technical, trade and patent literature, seminars and lectures. Exceptional facilities for these are provided.
Here are some examples, specific and general, of the problems that confront Du Pont research and development engineers:
1. Develop and design high-speed slitting equipment for thin films. Involved are unwind and wind-up tension regulation, alignment of web travel and cutting-knife selection, combined in a machine easy to service.
2. Design equipment to operate at pressures up to 45,000 p.s.i. This is insurance against the time when processes may be developed that will operate in this range.
As pressures are increased, design problems for moderate pressures are magnified. Typical are stress-fatigue of metals, design of vessel closures and line joints, valves and packing for reciprocating compressors and centrifugal pumps, packing glands for stirred autoclaves, etc.
3. Design, installation and testing of large air-conditioning systems necessary in the manufacture of certain products. In one plant, water is used at the rate of 50 million gallons daily, current at 25,000 kw. per hour, and air at 5.5 million C.F.M.
Albert Rand, B.S.M.E., M.I.T.'50 (right), and Rane Curl, M.I.T.'51 (summer worker), develop controls for chemical equipment.
R. T. Bradshaw, B.S.M.E.' 46, M.S.' 47,
Queens U., Ireland, and J.D. McHugh, B.S.
M.E., check the theoretical calculations.
literally hundreds, can only hint at the breadth and variety of the problems that are constantly arising.
One of the strongest pieces of evidence that mechanical engineering is of major significance in the Du Pont Company is the existence of the Wilmington Shops. They represent an investment of over $3,500,000 and cover an area of 300,000 sq. ft., including a foundry and pattern shop. They employ over 800 men and have a potential output in volume of work in excess of $6,000,000 a year.
The size and diversity of this operation are justified only because the work of mechanical engineers is an important factor in Du Pont operations.
NEXT MONTH—Opportunities in plant engineering and product supervision will be discussed in the third article in this series, "M.E.'s at Du Pont." Watch for it!
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