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Caption: Course Catalog - 1896-1897
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74 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Electrical current is supplied to all the laboratories from the battery room, and also from the dynamo laboratory in University Hall. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS The courses in theoretical and applied mechanics are designed to meet the needs of students of the College of Engineering. EQUIPMENT The Laboratory of Applied Mechanics is located in Engineering Laboratory. It comprises the materials laboratory and the hydraulic laboratory. The materials laboratory has an Olsen testing machine of 200,000 pounds capacity, arranged to test beams twenty feet long; a Riehle testing machine of 100,000 pounds capacity; a smaller apparatus for testing beams, a Riehle wire-testing machine, extensometers, and deflectometers, a stone-grinding machine, a rattler for abrasion tests of stone and brick, with other apparatus for making all necessary measurements and observations, etc. The laboratory is fitted up as a working laboratory where students may acquire such practice in experimental work as engineers are called upon to perform, as well as for the purpose of illustrating principles, and also for use in original investigation. The hydraulic laboratory contains a steel standpipe connected with city water supply and having several openings, a steam pump, tanks, pits, scales, pressure gauges, hook gauges, meters, including a Venturi meter, water meter, and other apparatus for experiments with orifices, tubes, weirs, pipes, hose, and nozzles. Experiments are made in connection with the regular class instruction.
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