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·   · »· New Percy H. Johnston Solar Laboratory Is Most Important Addition to
;   University’s Technical School; Interesting and Valuable Expe- V
L   · g riments Are Being Carried on by College Authorities K
  {   By Dean F. Paul Anderson
    The College of Engineering is just now a Very Study is a delightful and useful room. An open
Q   Q ; active colony on the campus of the Univer- fireplace taking four-foot logs adds to the cheery
i   ‘· sity of Kentucky. During the present collegiate atmosphere. The tables consist of tops made from
‘   _ . _ year over 600 students have matriculated in this sections of the old sycamore tree on the Richmond
,1 `   _ ¥ particular college. road, over which there was so much local contro-
Ti   Joseph Musselman Scholarship versy. These tree sections are mounted on sub-
i   so   Mrs- Susan Motooifo Mnssoimon hos given o_ stantial andoartistic wrought iron stands made in i
    i scholarship in memory of her deceased husband, the Umverslty Shops-
; _   i Joseph Franklin Musselman, class of 1900. The A Laboratory of New Approaches
Q { j _ Q following is a statement of the provisions of this Dr. E. V. Hill, the eminent scientific and health
Y   ` T scholarship; authority of Chicago, has this to say about the
    I ¢¢Th€ junio!. oiigihio for this sohoismship shaii Kentucky ·‘Laboratory·of Life and Light" after  
i i i shm is ostohhshod in memory of Joseph Frank- recent visit to the University for the purpose of s
j · im Mnssoimon by his Widow, Mis Susan Moo inspecting the Johnston Solar Laboratory:
, i calfe Musselman. "Here is an interesting phenomenon/’ remark-
  i ~This sohoionshin of $100 in goid is to be ed the Dean as he stroked the head of a little Ca-
i   ewei-ded annually to e student in the College of nuthin monkey thot lor hooking in tho light from
.   ji i Engineering or the University or Kentneky at tho big ultro—violot lamp over his hood-
 4   the completion of his junior year upon the rec- We Were seated in the Recording Room of the _
; i l ommendation of the Dean of the College of En- new Percy H. Johnston Solar Laboratory at the
V i gineering. The basis of award to be scholar- University of Kentucky, and Dean F. Paul Ander- i
.   ‘ l ship, character, and the need of financial as- son, the director, was discussing the design, con-
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· _1 i in engineering at the University of Kentucky. ment at the institution.  
» i ‘The junior eligible for this soholorshiio shall "When I bring this little lady into the Labora-
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"Well, what is it all about ?" I inquired. · . the realms of heating, ventilatmg, air cleaning, V _
iope to “During the years 1921-1922 YOU will 1'€€€lll I and in fact in the whole field of air conditioning, _
was Director of the Research Laboratory of the the human mortality curve still seems to express i
mt my American Society of Heating and Ventilating One Or the fixed lavvg Of Oui- exigtjeneg on this  
Engineers at Pittsburg. Our inVestig21i0l`S at planet. It goes up in winter when we live largely _ §
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keying determined the boundaries of the comfort Zone lll after year, in spite of our best efforts to prevent V; i
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quartz 00infort zone was an arbitrary path on each side "For this reason we haxlge gstablisxed ?`i)I` l keenly interested in educational and scientific This appears to me to be primarily an air con-
. [ m3,tt€]·g_ ditioned Laboratory. Why do you call it a Solar
Z l "Running true to form, Mr. Johnston selects Laboratory?
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l the college of his own state as the place to carry Why A Solar Laboratory
l on, and so the University of Kentucky has be- "The reason is this: This laboratory will at-
l l come his benenciary and we have evolved what tempt to show the part that sun energy or in
W promises to be one of the notable laboratories of fact light in myriad forms plays in the life of
. research in that fascinating field dealing with plants and animals.
l the {eye ef the etteet ef variable eir enyl light ··s0meday perhaps the engineer will be able tp e
{ conditions on plants and animals. The institu- produce in our living spaces an atmosphere in-
tion IS known as the Percy H. JOl1HStOI1 SOl2ll` Vglving the comfort zone of atmosphere coupled ;
Laboratory. with the mysterious light energy so generally zw-
"The building is a galvanized steel construction cepted as invgorating, necessary and life-pro»-
Lutton Solar V—bar solarium containing eight longing.
separate and independent rooms. An attempt "The study of sun energy is one of the im- J
has been made to provide the widest combination portant divisions in the laboratory’s program.
and variability in the heating and air condition- The characteristics of various light transmission
ing equipment. It will be possible to establish media is another field of investigation contem-
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mma], plated. The character and value of artificial in excess of the desirable physiological dosage.   ‘  it   V
S, any light-and energy-—producing devices is one of "While we will pnobably work out many defi-   i t A
{mom 1 y the very definite approaches of the J ohnstoln nite problems in the best air conditions for plants Q     2
he 1.€_ g Solar Laboratory? and animals, I am rather inclined to the belief       _
m im_ "The engineer is striving to eventually have that the greatest value of this Laboratory will     lift   l
ideal living environments indoors no matter what be in compiling and adding to tha maagra data {       — I
OHS in the vagaries outdoors be. The engineer Wants on these subjects available at the present time.      ix l
"For instance", the Dean continued as we ·  *>   L  2
ab°m' walked through the Laboratory, "here is a bed of _   _»_: i.      
1`at¤1‘€   _ · snapdragons on this side. On the other side   E  i  
tions."   ’ll?   chrysanthemums. They are both in the same I   j ` ~  Q
ly com   ···  ’ i;i{ZF  room, maintained at the same temperature and ,     2  
Solar     humidity. We can flood half of the beds with A     p `  A  
  ultra-violet light and grow the other half in       _  ?
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can change the temperature conditions, and as ;   1.  Y ·
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I _ a are bound to be of great value. I l _ _   ; 
  "Not only do we control accurately the temper-   I .
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» " ’ ` of ultra-violet light, but our air supply is also i  I  
P _ Percy H. Johnston, who Endowed the Laboratory washed and fi]i;g];·gd_ _ . ;·  at °
, humanity to not only revel in the ‘comfort zone’ uwhat (jects can We produce ut thm r°Om’ for      -:
A of atmosphere but he wants man to be able to exampkh wlth abéolutety Clean am .3‘ measured _'     * 
bask in the splendor of old Sol transformed as amount of u1tm`Y1(?l€t hgh€’_:°md Uptlmllm temp`   gf ii  ; Q
1 his moods dictate. erature and humidity conditions on animals ?· 1,2   I
"Mark Twain pertinently remarked that every- “M°nk€yS’_3‘S you knOW’ are (tune Susgeptlblc il A    °
body seemed to be talking about the weather but to tuberculosm We are consldermg devotmg one I I     ¢
no one seemed to be doing anything about it. It {   i
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_ p to do something about it."           Q.  _ 
E I The personnel of the Johnston Solar Labora-   ,‘_   F s   ` i_‘r `   `  
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F. Paul Anderson, Director. gl  `  ii   L     ~ V . .   ~g`·  
, Lester S. O’Banion, Research Head in Charge     .'`i ig`; ff  V, i ii?. 
of Heating and Air Conditioning. ‘    _»       _; 
ii The following are the laboratory observers and     __ ` ·` “    
assistants: R. C. Porter, J. W. May, Cyrus Poole,  `°   __ ‘ 5 fl  -i
T. A. Kendall, I. G. Watkins, J . Y. Peck, Clarence g    
vm ab Flynn, and J. H. Rice. ·_   { ‘    
, OT in `. What is your program? I asked. n   e _Y ‘ _1
life Of I "The Laboratory has only recently been com-   ; . _    
pleted, and our program is still under consider- ·· ` {   ,.
able to A ation Our expéiimenlal rooms are S0 equipped L. S. O’Banion, Research Head of the Laboratory E   ‘
are in- » that we can maintain any temperature or hu- I  at  1
coupled i Ullellty at our desire, irrespective of weather con- of the rooms to the treatment of some monkeys - Al l 1
my aC_   dltlons outdoors. We can vary the air motion at that have acquired pulmonary tuberculosis. There  
f€_ )1_0_ I will. We can darken the rooms or flood them is good reason to believe that the beneficial ef-   - 
I with sunlight, including or exclud1ng to a great fects of outdoor treatment for tuberculosis pa- gi,  ; 
he im_ j extent the ultra-vioet rays. We can reduce the tients in the mountains or pine woods is a matter I V    ;g  
Ogmm.  » ultra—violet to a point comparable to that mam- of clean air, free from dust, far from the c1t1es, fj  
mission _ tained in indoor life today during the winter asjvell as of invigorating outdooi air. U . ` *   .   
Ont€m_ Season or we can increase It to a quantity much Here we can produce these C011d1t1011b @011- V it      r 
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 , it all   tinuously at will. Who knows, perhaps the air perature-sensitive element in order to cause the
  Q   conditioning engineer will point the way for the thermostat to respond more quickly to changes
A _     { cure or prevention of the White plague-and in the temperature of the room air and to min-
  ‘   other infectious and allergic diseases—as he has imize the effect of the direct rays of the sun.
T   T ’ already pointed the way to greater comfort and Two mercury-in-glass theremometers are mount-
i T f Q health indoors." ed on the same·bracket to which the thermostat .
 {   { A {   More povver to yoni. atm, Says L Amen is fastened so that the bulbs of the thermometers
    % l Mechanical Equipment of the Percy H. Johnston are m the as St1€am° Om thelmometer guies
. t o l the dry bulb temperature and the other is equip-
  t   = Solar Laboratory , . . . .
= i _ _ ._ i ped with a wetting device to indicate the wet
§ : { , Heat for the Johnston Solar Labor atoiy is sup- .
F · { g . _ . -i _ bulb temperature. The assembly IS mounted on
i l { plied by three low pressuie steam heating boi els. R pedestal SO that it may be moved Conveniently
`A A     2;;; giezhe 'iflegigggri”ff;;$uf;‘dpf;;g?t;€Q£; and situated most favorably with respect to {
_   { { ` Lrri · . ‘ `- . . .
[   i A boilers is valved so that the boilers may be ope- tempelatilic Condmons m the mom' L
    l rated Singiy, in pairs Oi ai on at the Sm time. t hi rtldltler to tliiidhgg riff jeg ijgjsm ss-
? . E   " i The fuel combustion rate is regulated by the €m5’ Ea IS Supp _ B g ,n SjB_1O9m
1 i · { . - _ by means of warm air from the a1r—cond1t1on1ng
1  » { l rise and fall of steam pressure at the bo1le1 s. _ . .
_ { { _   The principal medium for heating the Scvémi unit. The temperature of the air leaving the
, L     { _ s compartments, Or greenhouse moms, Of the Soial, air conditioner is thermostatically controlled ac-
V  * j l ‘ cordmg to the lowest temperature required in
    ` T A ‘   ··~”:;·~       t ’    s   ·· ` s l i any single room. A booster heater, using steam,
 T { ‘ A       l  lij"i§““"‘.i?‘ mit *?“‘“°F. f“`§ZJ° '”“hii"°’“`  
_ ; r » ,.,4;  { _r ____   { !.{Ic,._{,w   c.  T IS eater is un 91 con ro o e room {erm- { 
1 · { { b` ‘~.     ct. ··          ostat and supplies additional heat as required.
T   l j  { ,. ff {  _.  *     Ventilation is obtained either naturally by
  A   i  °‘ “  { V    ` ,,e_ no ii . { tj manual operation of the ventilating sash form-
{   { -       of {       ing a part of the greenhouse structure or by
_   j '_- ° .   j  `__      i e  `,i.   forced circulation by means of the air condition-
T A " · il         er. Any proportion or recirculated air or new
—   { i"`“”*_‘f       j ·=   air may be obtained by operating mixing damp- i
{ . { A `     _   *   l °   ers located at the air inlet inside of the unit. ·
·     nf _     An amonia compressor refrigerating machine
  Z _     ».   ,   coupled to an expansion coil in a cooling tank
i? T   by { ` . “ A   A  ’ ·   furnishes the necessary refrigeration for a cold
  zi T T  v__j[__,_  on __,_ __  *.,,   — i ,   water supply for the air conditioneri The cold
; n Part of the Mechanical Equipment Below the Laboratory Water IS ;L§lph€d tto th; mr tcoigldltlonir bg i
{ c { _ _ pump, an e wa er re urns o' e coo mg an ’
  { { laboratory is hotlwater. The water IS heated {by by g1·avity_ Make-up water is supplied at room  `
~ {Q { i steam 1n two diiferent heaters. A circulating tenineiiatnie The quantity of cold Wvater en_
  { pump is used for forcing the hot water through teting the Sni»ey_nnnin Suction chenihei. is de_
ig { { ’ the radiators under the greenhouse benches. The teiniined by the operation of o deW_noint
{   in hot water radiation is controlled by hand 0199- thermostat on a diaphragm valve in the cold _
{ { {   rated valves on each radiator. The hot water Wetei. Supply nine
if system IS {“`mngf’d to Opeliate by gravity tow The dew-point thermostat is regulated to se-
`   wher the Clrculatmg pump IS not On- cure the minimum humidity desired in any par-
V   Each g1‘€€¤h0US€ €01T1lJH1’tm€h’t h3S QUE €?lSlJ ticular compartment under control. Additional _
 {   lI'OI'1 I`3.dl3.lZOl.` h€3.lZ9(l dl1`€ClZly by SlZ€2l.I'Il.   yngjstuyg jg Suppigd tg gach yggm Sgpgratgly by .
 { i -, steam HOW to this radiator is €0htF0H€d by ft means of air—operated atomizing spray nozzles r
Z   ~ motor valve which in turn is controlled by the located at the heads of the warm air stacks. In _
 _ · room thermostat- The hot Water radiators are each reem an electrically operated humidity cen-
i T { hard €0h'¤I`0h€d to S€@u1‘€ tl 1`€Y01h t€mD€1`3tU1`€ troller operates a solenoid valve in the air line to »
{ l { l the thermostatically controlled steam radiator the Spray ngzzlg and yggulatgs the yeietjve hu-
{ I . operates on and off to maintain the desired tem- mjdjty at the dggiygd pe1~eeni;age_
_; { in * i P€1`3t¤I'€· The Annual Man Hunt
{ ‘   { The room thermostat is mounted on the suc- A very favorable index of the stability of bus-
{T  · {' " " l tion