New Research Facilities

Dedication ceremonies were held early in June at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to celebrate the opening of MIT’s new $600,000 hydrodynamics laboratory. Located on Vassar Street near Main Street in Cambridge, the new laboratory has been planned to provide space and facilities for all types of research in the mechanics of liquid flow. A 108‐foot ship model towing tank, to be operated by MIT’s department of naval architecture and marine engineering, is included in the laboratory’s permanent equipment. Other laboratory facilities are designed primarily to serve the department of civil and sanitary engineering. Arthur T. Ippen, professor of hydraulics, is laboratory director. The dedication program took place during the opening session of a symposium on hydrodynamics in modern technology which was held from June 4th to 6th in Cambridge and which was attended by more than two hundred scientists, hydraulic engineers, and naval architects.

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