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Caption: Dedication - Materials Testing Lab Dedication
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MATERIALS TESTING LABORATORY HYDRAULICS LABORATORY tion of students in the testing of the materials of concrete and of concrete itself. Three moist rooms for the curing of concrete specimens are located along the south side of the room. Four large storage bins for materials are located outside the building on the north, with access through the north wall. The equipment in this laboratory includes student work tables, cement testing machines, steam bath, moist closet, balances, sieve shaker, gyratory riddle, materials bins, drying oven, 200 000-lb. hydraulic compression testing machine, field concrete-beam-testing machine, flow-table, refrigeration unit, recording thermometers, concrete mixers, and miscellaneous apparatus and equipment. A Talbot-Jones rattler for testing the wearing qualities of concrete is located in a sound-proof room in the basement. 8. Hydraulics Laboratory.—The hydraulics laboratory occupies the basement and first floor of the west wing. There are several large concrete channels in the basement which may be used both for hydraulic experiments, and to receive water discharged from apparatus on the first floor. One of these channels is 5 by 5 feet in cross-section
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