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Caption: Dedication - Materials Testing Lab Dedication
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MATERIALS TESTING LABORATORY B I T U M I N O U S LABORATORY special Olsen impact machine, several motor-driven testing machines of various types for testing small specimens, hardness testing machines, and various types of strain measuring apparatus. 10. Highway Laboratories.—The highway laboratories occupy the second floor of the east wing, with auxiliary rooms available on the first floor in the northeast wing, and are used for the instruction of students. The elementary bituminous laboratory occupies the northeast wing on the second floor and contains a large work table with ventilated hood, a filtration table with 16 suction pumps, a centrifugal extraction machine for the examination of bituminous mixtures, a ductility machine, a rotary shelf oven, and several smaller ovens, a constant-temperature \^ater bath, asphalt penetration machines, eight analytical balances, specific gravity apparatus, Engler viscosimeters, etc. Small equipment is kept in 150 12-inch cubical lockers. The advanced bituminous laboratory is at the south end of the east wing on the second floor, and is equipped with six ventilated compartments, constant high temperature oven, centrifuge, centrifugal extraction machine for the examination of bituminous materials, chemical desk, and miscellaneous small equipment.
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