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THE TEACHING OE MECHANICS 
BY EXPERIMENT. 
{ILL US TEA TED WITH EIGHT FIG FEES). 
BY 
J. A. EWING, ESQ., F.R.S. 
Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics in the 
University of Cambridge. 
A Lecture delivered at the Loyal Artillery Institution, Woolwich, Thursday, Feb. 10th, 1898. 
MAJOR P. A. MAC MAHON, R.A., E.R.S., IN THE CHAIR. 
THE CHAIRMAN—Ladies and gentlemen, I liave much pleasure 
in introducing to you the lecturer of this evening, Professor Ewing, 
F.R.S., of the University of Cambridge, where he holds the post of 
Professor of Engineering. He is well known in engineering circles; 
he is an expert, one may say, in many departments of the subject, in 
most branches of civil engineering, mechanical engineering and of 
electrical engineering, particularly electrical engineering. He has 
written a great many scientific papers, and it would be quite safe to 
say that in more than one department at the present time he is 
the greatest living authority (applause). 
PROFESSOR EWING—Major MacMahon, ladies and gentlemen, 
in the teaching of science the last quarter of the nineteenth century 
has seen many changes. Perhaps none of these is more conspicuous 
than the favour now shown to the laboratory method. At the time 
when those of us now in middle life were at school it was, apparently, 
considered reasonable and proper to give instruction even in such 
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