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Caption: Course Catalog - 1896-1897
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PHYSICS 73 neering, science teaching, or research in physical science, with such a knowledge of the phenomena and laws of physics as may be of greatest use in his chosen calling. EQUIPMENT The rooms devoted to physics are in Engineering Hall. They include a large lecture room and cabinet, a large general laboratory and cabinet, several small laboratories, a constant-temperature room, a battery room, a work shop, and several private studies, laboratories, and offices. The lecture room is in the form of an amphitheater, and is furnished with opera chairs provided with tablet arms. Piers at the lecture desk and in the center of the room make demonstrations with the more delicate apparatus possible. A permanent screen and rolling blinds, operated by a motor, facilitate illustration by lantern. The cabinet rooms adjoining the lecture room are supplied with apparatus suitable for illustration and demonstration, and are provided with conveniences for preparing apparatus for lectures. The general laboratory is a room sixty feet square, and is well lighted and ventilated. It is supplied with tables, shelves, and sinks, arranged for general experimental work. The cabinet room adjoining this laboratory contains the apparatus designed for elementary experimental work, and also a line of high-grade apparatus intended for advanced experimental work and research. The small laboratories, six in number, are on the first floor, and are abundantly provided with masonry piers, wall shelves, sinks, dark curtains, etc. These rooms are now equipped with apparatus for electrical measurements. The constant-temperature room is on the first floor. It is isolated from the surrounding space by double masonry walls and double doors. It is arranged for such experiments as require a low, uniform temperature. The department shares with the electrical engineering department the work shop in University Hall. This gives the department special facilities for preparing special apparatus for advanced and original investigations. In addition to the preceding, there are a number of private studies and laboratories for the use of advanced students and instructors,
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