Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1896-1897 [PAGE 28]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

The chemical laboratory occupies the building of the same name, already described. The physical laboratory is in Engineering Hall. It is provided with piers, a constant temperature room, and other conveniences for measurement work. The psychological laboratory in University Hall is well provided with apparatus of many different kinds for use in experimental study, research, and instruction. ENGINEERING LABORATORIES The cement laboratory of the department of civil engineering occupies two large rooms in Engineering Hall, arid is provided with slate tables, testing machines, molding machines, sieves, etc., and twenty-four sample barrels of hydraulic cement, varieties of sand, and other necessary materials. The electrical engineering laboratory is partly in Engineering Hall and partly in University Hall. The mechanical laboratory occupies a large part of both floors of Engineering Laboratory and each of its departments is equipped for practical work by students. The laboratory of applied mechanics, located in Engineering Laboratory, gives opportunity to students of the College of Engineering to make various practical experiments and tests, and to prosecute original investigation in their specialties. SPECIAL LABORATORIES FOR RESEARCH The laboratory of the Agricultural Experiment Station occupies a part of the basement of Natural History Hall. The laboratory rooms' of the State Laboratory of Natural History are in Natural History Hall. A Biological Experiment Station has been established by the University on the Illinois River at Havana, Illinois, and equipped for field and experimental work in aquatic biology. It has its separate staff, but is open to students of the University at all times on application, and to special students not otherwise connected with the University during the summer months. A laboratory for sanitary water analysis has recently been equipped with all necessary appliances, and chemical investigation of the water supplies of the state is now under way.