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University has itself initiated and established departments of 

 applied science, no other technical school has at present been 

 incorporated as a whole into the University. At Charlottenburg 

 the degrees, Dip. Ing. and Dr. Ing., and the corresponding 

 degrees of the Munich Technische Hochschule, Dip. Ing. and 

 Dr. Tech., are given by the Technical Schools themselves 

 independently of the University. 



The relations subsisting between the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology and the University of Harvard seem to be inter- 

 mediate between the complete incorporation at Manchester 

 and the independence at Berlin. Students in Engineering and 

 Mining are eligible for degrees both from Harvard and the 

 Institute simultaneously, provided they have satisfied the 

 conditions prescribed by the respective institutions. In brief 

 both professors and students in these departments belong to 

 both institutions at once. Probably in time a closer union will 

 be entered into, though at present the Institute maintains its 

 corporate individuality. 



The buildings of the Municipal School of Technology at 

 Manchester are six stories in height, and cover a plot of land 

 6400 square yards in area. The value of the site, buildings, and 

 equipment is upwards of 370,000. Many departments are 

 provided for, but we can in this place only describe, and that 

 but briefly, the department of Applied Chemistry. The chemical 

 laboratories comprise a laboratory for inorganic chemistry with 

 bench space for 90 students working simultaneously ; a laboratory 

 for organic chemistry with bench space for 36 students ; a labora- 

 tory for physical chemistry and special laboratories for practical 

 work in gas analysis, water analysis, and others for research and 

 technical work in metallurgy, brewing, rubber working, dyeing, 

 bleaching, calico printing, paper-making, photography and its 

 applications to photo-mechanical reproduction and colour. 



A view of the dyeing laboratory is shown in the illustration 

 (Fig. 28, facing p. 55). It is fitted with experimental dye baths, 

 jacketed colour pans, and drying cupboards heated by steam, 

 hand printing machines, and other necessary appliances for 

 carrying out experimental and comparative dye and print trials 

 on a small scale. With this laboratory is associated a pattern 

 room and a laboratory for the analytical and research work which 

 relates to colouring matters, to dyeing, and the allied industries. 



Chemical technology necessarily requires a knowledge, not 



