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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, May 3, 1960
"TWO'S" COMING UP—Richard Porter, Overland Park freshman, and Nancy Willett, Chanute freshman, are one of seventeen groups composing the annual Alpha Chi Omega and Sigma Nu Jacks tournament, held Sunday at the Sigma Nu house. The Alpha Chi swept the tournament with a 15-2 win over the men.
Plastic Squeeze Bottles to Car Parts Made in Fowler Shops
A vest-pocket factory which teaches KU students how to make everything from plastic squeeze bottles to automobile parts is humming with activity every day at KU.
Set back between Marvin Hall and Lindley Hall, the Fowler Shops give students an understanding of modern manufacturing methods and teaches them to operate the complex machinery that forms the backbone of the assembly line.
As the visitor enters the building, his eye may be caught by a museum display just inside the front entrance. Here the evolution of toolmaking is traced from the primitive stone hammer used by the men of prehistory to the milling machine invented in 1818 by Eli Whitney, who also built the cotton gin and first conceived of interchangeable parts.
The scale models of the machines invented during the Industrial Revolution are faced by examples of the modern art of manufacture, including plastics and intricate metal castings.
Scale Models Presented
The old and the new stand quietly side by side in many of the display cases that dot the stairways and corridors of the building. Bronze knives and crude
iron tools from a bygone age nestle close to the gleaming steel and aluminum implements and parts that drive our modern civilization.
On the ground floor, a sign made from hundreds of tiny cogwheels spells out "Tool Engineering." This is the largest open area in the building. Here row on row of massive machines, all painted in bright yellows and greens, stand like an army drawn up in battle order, silently awaiting the order of the commander.
In the back of this factory area, students are gathered about a machine while an instructor explains the process involved in a particular manufacturing operation.
Auto Engine Exhibited
At the front of the shop, a glistening cutaway of an automobile engine serves as an example of the process of internal combustion and the advanced techniques of the auto industry. At one side of the shop another exhibit traces aluminum from its ore, bauxite and others, through the electrolytic process of manufacture to the finished pigs or ingots.
In the dungeonlike basement, molten metal is molded and cast at the foundry. In one dark corner, scrap metal lies piled against
a wall, fodder for the red mouth of the furnace.
Also in the basement are the many machines used in processing hot and cold metal after the foundry operation.
Students Work
The climb up the narrow staircase to the second floor brings the visitor to one of the newest and most vital industries of the modern age of technology-plastics. On display are fishing lures, camera cases and models of dueling pistols, all made from plastic.
Students are busy in the woodworking shop, as they saw and chisel out wooden models which will be used to make the molds for the foundry castings. Through a closed door outside the woodworking shop, the machines used in precision measurement and inspection stand hooded and silent on their tables.
But throughout the building, the rule is activity. Everywhere the visitor looks, he will be able to find students learning the skills of a new era—the age of the machine.
Gilbert to Give Last Lecture
William Gilbert, associate professor of history will speak at the Last Lecture series at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
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