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1912] INSTITUTE AFFAIRS 449 PROCEEDINGS application at Institute headquarters, 33 West 39th Street, New York. OF THE At the close of the technical session American Institute the meeting will adjourn to the In stitute offices on the 10th floor, where OF the usual smoker will be held and light Electrical Engineers. refreshments served. Midwinter Convention, New York, February 26-28, 1913 Published monthly by the A. I. E. E., at 33 W. 39th St., New York, under the supervision of A midwinter convention of the In stitute is to be held in New York, at THE EDITING COMMITTEE the Institute headquarters, February 26-28, 1913, under the auspices of the GEORGE R. METCALFE, Editor Standards Committee. This meeting will be devoted to the general subject of the rating and testing of electrical Subscription. $10.00 per year for all countries to machinery and apparatus. which the bulk rate of postage applies. Members are invited to contribute All other countries $12.00 per year. for this convention papers and discus Single copy $1.00. Subscriptions must begin with January issue. sions dealing with the following subjects: 1. Methods of determining tempera Changes of advertising copy should reach this office by the 15th of the month, for the issue of the ture of apparatus, of room temperature, following month and correction of temperature rise for room temperature, humidity, baro Vol XXXI December, 1912 No. 12 metric pressure, etc. 2. Methods of determining losses in Regular December Meeting of apparatus, including: Load losses, their the A. I. £. E., New York, determination and approximation; December 13, 1912 commutation or brush losses, their de The two hundred and seventy-eighth termination, approximation or calcula meeting of the American Institute of tion. Electrical Engineers will be held in the 3. Methods of testing apparatus auditorium of the Engineers Building, under conditions equivalent to specified New York, December 13, 1912, at 8:15 performance. p.m. 4. Guarantees and permissible varia This meeting will be held under the tions therefrom. auspices of the High-Tension Trans 5. Miscellaneous subjects connected mission Committee, and will be devoted with rating and testing, such as: to a consideration of the subject of Insulation tests. high-tension insulators—tests and specifi High-potential test and spark-gap cations. The purpose is to bring out standard. the different points of view of engineers, Permissible variation of wave shape operators and manufacturers on this of alternators. subject. Control apparatus, rheostats, heat Two papers will be presented—High- ing devices and sundry other subjects. Frequency Tests of Line Insulators, by It is desired that these papers con L. E. Imlay and Percy H. Thomas, and tain data and constructive criticism, Comparative Tests on High-Tension giving definite recommendations for Suspension Insulators, by P. W.th e guidance of the Standards Commit Sothman. These papers are both pub tee in the revision of the Standardiza lished in this issue of the PROCEEDINGS, tion Rules, rather than general theoreti and reprints may be obtained upon cal investigation and discussion. 450 PROCEEDINGS OF A.I. E. E. [Dec. All those desiring to contribute papers auditorium of the Engineering Societies for this convention should notify the Building on Thursday evening, Decem chairman of the Standards Committee ber 5, 1912, at half past eight. as to their intention immediately upon Following the presentation in the receipt of this notice, and all manu main auditorium, there will be given, scripts must be received at Institute on the fifth floor of the building, a headquarters on or before January 1, reception to Robert Woolston Hunt 1913. by the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Ameri John Fritz Medal Awarded— Presentation in New York, can Institute of Electrical Engineers. December 5» 1912 All members of the four American The John Fritz Medal Board of engineering societies which are rep Award has announced the award of resented upon the John Fritz Medal the medal for the year 1912 to Robert Board of Award are invited to attend Woolston Hunt, of Chicago, 111., " for the presentation and the reception. his contributions to the early develop The Reception Committeee is com ment of the Bessemer process." posed of Messrs. John A. Brashear, The John Fritz Medal was estab Gano Dunn, Louis A. Ferguson, W. F. lished by the professional associates M. Goss, Alexander C. Humphreys, and friends of John Fritz, on August F. R. Hutton, Dugald C. Jackson, 21, 1902, his eightieth birthday, to James F. Kemp, Charles Kirchhoff, perpetuate the memory of his achieve Ralph D. Mershon, R. V. Norris, E. ments in industrial progress. It is G. Spilsbury, Lewis B. Stillwell and awarded for notable scientific or indus Henry R. Towne. trial achievement, without restriction as to nationality or sex. Participation of Institute The John Fritz Medal has been Sections in Civic Affairs awarded, since the date of its establish During the past few years several ment, to the following: instances have occurred indicating the desirability of defining the policy to 1905—Lord Kelvin. be followed by Sections of the Insti 1906—George Westinghouse. tute in dealing with local civic affairs 1907—Alexander Graham Bell. involving engineering questions. 1908—Thomas Alva Edison. The actions of Sections in such 1909—Charles T. Porter. matters are governed by Section 48 of 1910—Alfred Noble. the by-laws, which reads as follows: 1911—Sir William Henry White. 1912—Robert Woolston Hunt. " SEC. 48. The principal work of a Section shall be the holding of regular meetings for the pre The award of the medal is made by a sentation and discussion of papers on matters board of sixteen members, made up of relating to electricity, and to the allied arts and four representatives, each, of the Am sciences, but no action which may purport to represent the policy or organization of the erican Society of Civil Engineers, the INSTITUTE, or of any Section, shall be published American Institute of Mining Engi or communicated to any party or parties who are neers, the American Society of Mechani not members of the INSTITUTE, without the cal Engineers, and the American In approval of the Board of Directors." stitute of Electrical Engineers. The The Toronto Section was recently members at present representing the invited to participate in a matter of A. I. E. E. are Messrs. Louis A. Ferg importance involving questions of elec uson, Lewis B. Stillwell, Dugald C. trical engineering, and referred the Jackson and Gano Dunn. matter to the Board of Directors of the The public presentation of the medal Institute for a decision as to the pro to Mr. Hunt will be made in the main cedure to be followed. The Board of .