North Sheffield Hall

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1871

The American Institute of Mining Engineering (AIME) was founded.

Receipt of 5000 Pounds Sterling from Susan King Higgin, Liverpool, England, a niece of Joseph Earl Sheffield, for the establishment of a Professorship of Dynamic Engineering to be associated with the name of her husband. The Robert Higgin Professorship is the oldest endowed Chair of Engineering in the United States. Professor Trowbridge was the first holder of this chair.

1873

The degree of Dynamic Engineer approved by the Corporation. This graduate degree was normally awarded after a five-year program in the Scientific School.

North Sheffield Hall completed and occupied by the Civil and Mechanical Engineering departments.

Professor William A. Norton was elected to National Academy of Science.

1874

Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Samuel William Johnson (1830-1909) proposes to the State of Connecticut the case for the establishment of an Agricultural Experimental Station. The State Legislature implements this notion in 1875, the first such Agricultural Station in the United States. Amongst his books were “How Crops Grow,” 1868, and “How Crops Feed,” 1870. He had been elected to the National Academy of Science in 1866.

Class of 1873