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glad you liked the picture of the big turbine and that machinery does thrill you. There aren't many girls who feel that way. But machinery thrills me too. They had that turbine running last week and when they got it up to speed -- 1,200 rpm -- there was such a terrific roar all through the building that one could scarcely hear one's own thoughts. But I heard enough of mine to know that it all appealed to me very much -- in fact, I shivered all over, it did thrill me so. I came here to find out just what I eventually want to do, and right now I am beginning to lean toward straight engineering rather than management work. I guess I like science as well as you do. Here is something that describes engineering quite well:

"Engineers have a visual interest in research, for along the trail blazed by the scientist, they build the more permanent road."

That sentence applies to both you and me, and don't you think it is a great field to be in? I hope I haven't talked too much about technical matters, but I feel that you don't mind although most girls would be bored to extinction.

[[underline]] To Mother, October 6, 1924: [[/underline]] You remember I mentioned the young Hinds (should be Hines) fellow who was a Syracuse Tau Beta Pi several years ago and who met and married a Schenectady girl when he came down to the GE. Well, he and his wife sat in almost the next seat to me last night. That girl to your left on the platform was his sister and an old flame of John Strong's. So, although I knew no one in the car well enough to speak to them, I didn't feel so lonesome riding down. I think I slept a little too, from Canajoharie to Amsterdam, where I have no recollection of anything. I got to bed at exactly midnight. I think that I was put to sleep on the train by an article I started to read in "Mechanical Engineering." It started off like this: "The frequencies of the free or transient dynamic stresses which are set up depend upon the geometric configuration and the elastic constants of the system, whereas the frequencies of the forced components, which are the only dynamic stresses existing in the steady state, are the frequencies of the one or several harmonic components of the impressed force." Do you wonder that I went to sleep? It was an article on a Geberal Electric research being carried out at MIT too.

[[underline]] To Mother, October 7, 1924: [[/underline]] You asked me to tell you all about my work among the giant turbines, but I am not among them yet. I am still up in "I.C." However, I see quite a little of them. Del built a radio set this afternoon so he could get the WGY reports of the World Series. He has the set installed [[underline]] inside [[/underline]] the turbine he is working on, and goes down into a remote corner of the huge thing to "listen in." It is remarkable how simple a set one needs here to get WGY. Del's set consists of a crystal