City and Guilds (Engineering) College
1926; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 118; Issue: 2974 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1038/118632a0
ISSN1476-4687
Tópico(s)Water management and technologies
ResumoTHE Duke of York, on October 21, opened the extension of the City and Guilds (Engineering) College at South Kensington, which has been provided by the munificence of the Goldsmiths' Company at a capital cost for building of 87,000l. Soon after the Royal Charter was granted in 1907 to the Imperial College of Science and Technology, of which the City and Guilds College forms the engineering department, it was decided that a large extension was necessary to provide adequate equipment for engineering education and research. A site was granted for the purpose by the Commissioners of the 1851 Exhibition to the north of the old college in Exhibition Road, and Prof. Dalby, the Dean of the College, drew up a scheme for three new laboratories: (1) hydraulics, (2) structural engineering, motive power engineering and strength of materials, and (3) railway engineering. Building was commenced in 1911 and completed in 1914, the architect being Sir Aston Webb. The laboratories, one of which is top-lighted, cover an area of 32,900 square feet. Apart from the cost of the building, defrayed by the Goldsmiths' Company, Mr. Hawksley contributed 4000l. towards the equipment of the hydraulics laboratory, the governing body of the Imperial College expended 20,000l. on equipment, and the Cloth-workers' Company has provided 4000l. per annum for a number of years towards the cost of research. During the War, the buildings were occupied by the Government for war purposes, the structural laboratories, in particular, being used by the Admiralty as research laboratories.
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