Engineering foundation: Carnot centenary

The Founder Engineering Societies, the American Physical Society, the Americal Chemical Society and several universities and engineering colleges joined in celebrating on December 4, 1924 the centenary of the publication by Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot of his great principle of thermodynamics. The ceremonies were in Engineering Societies Building, New York, under auspices of Engineering Foundation. The interesting addresses by Dr. W. P. Durand, President of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, who presided, and by Prof. M. I. Pupin, of Columbia University, and Dr. W. L. R. Emmet, Consulting Engineer of General Electric Company, have just been printed in a booklet along with a copy of a portrait of Carnot made in 1817. The pamphlet may be obtained by request to Engineering Foundation, at 29 West 39th Street.