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THE new extension of the physical and electro-1 technical laboratories of the University of Manchester was formally opened on Friday evening, March 1, by Prof. Schuster, F.R.S. A well-attended reception and conversazione was held on Friday evening in the old and new laboratories. Many interesting experiments and exhibits of apparatus were on view during the conversazione and on Saturday morning. In the course of the evening a meeting was held in the large lecture theatre. The Vice-Chancellor, Sir Alfred Hopkinson, referred to the growth of the work in the physical laboratory and the necessity of providing more space for research. Mr. S. Z. de Ferranti, president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, was awarded the honorary degree of doctor of science. Prof. Lamb, in presenting Mr. Ferranti to the Vice-Chancellor, said that more than a quarter of a century ago he attacked the problem of the transmission of electrical energy in its most concentrated form, and, undaunted by discouragements and prophecies of disaster, he solved it in practice on a commercial scale with complete success. It was largely to his initiative and his labours that we owed the plentiful use of the light which supplemented and often, alas ! superseded and surpassed the sunshine of Manchester.
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The Extension of the Physical and Electrotechnical Laboratories of the University of Manchester . Nature 89, 46 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089046a0
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