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Br eckenridge—Engineering Experiment Simian

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which receive our bulletins. • They should be urged to preserve their copies, as many of the earlier numbers are now out of print and are not easily procured. The mailing list for the Experiment Station bulletins is made up about as follows:—- i. Receiving All Bulletins, (a) List comprising all members of the W. S. E.; (b) All members of several Illinois societies, clubs and commercial organizations; (c) The residents of Illinois who are members of the National Engineering Societies; (d) The Technical Press, domestic and foreign; (e) The leading libraries of the U. S. and all libraries in Illinois ; (f) Instructional Staff and all graduates of the College of Engineering .. .. 4500 2. Receiving only Classified Bulletins*, (a) Manufacturers interested only in special subjects; (b) Fuel Engineers; (c) Refrigeration engineers; (d) Heating and Ventilating Engineers; (e) Railway Clubs; Boards of health; (f) City Smoke Departments; (g) Schools and Colleges; (h) Miners and operators of Zosl Mines . . . . . . . . . . . . . # . . . 1000 to 4000 3. Receiving Bulletins on Request. (Application for Bulletins reach the Station from all parts of the world following reviews by the technical press) .. 1000 to 1500 4. Unclassified List—General 500 (b) There are now over fifty lines of investigation in progress in the Station; some are nearing completion,, some are but just started. Many preliminary researches reveal the absence of any necessity for further work. Some investigations lead only to negative results. The following list will give an indication as to the character of work now (May 1, 1909) in progress, distributed among the various departments. Investigations in Progress. 1. A study of plain base plates and ribbed base plates for columns. 2. Economical design of steel and of wooden roof trusses. 3. Description of specialties and conveniences adapted for isolated country dwellings. 4. Tests on the action of rolling loads on ordinary highway bridges. 5. Standardization of the rattler test for paving brick. 6. Use of concrete on the farm. 7. Tests on tungsten lamps. 8. Interference between high potential and telephone lines. 9. Tests of household electric appliances.

10. Electric drives for machine tools. 11. The flow of steam through nozzles. 12. Transmission of heat through tubes under varying velocities of water flow. 13. Gas producer tests at varying capacities. 14. Problems in steam heating by a central station system. 15. > The cost of power. 16. Fuel tests with house-heating boilers. 17. Experiments on a smokeless furnace. 18. Fuel tests with hot air furnaces. 19. Fuel tests with Illinois coal in power plant boilers. 20. The weathering of coal. 21. Causes which promote the spontaneous combustion of coal. 22. Report of tests of Illinois Coals by U. S. Geol. Survey. 23. Occluded gases in coal. 24. The low temperature distillation of coal. 25. On the rate of formation of carbon monoxide in gas producers. 26. Thermal-conductivities at high temperatures. 27. Boiler waters. 28. Electric car resistance. 29. Boiler plate temperatures. 30. Wheel flange pressures. 31. Tests of rock ballast road-beds. 32. Resistance of interurban cars on curves. 33. Train resistance tests on steam roads. 34. Relation of economic conditions of territory to types of electric roads. 35. The properties of reinforced concrete columns with special reference to the use of large amounts of steel. 36. The properties of reinforced concrete beams; web resistance and modulus of elasticity. 37. Reinforced concrete wall footings and pier footings. 38. An investigation of continuous beams made with reinforce^ concrete. 39. Bond between concrete and steel. 40. The distribution of stress in structural steel columns. 41. A study of tests of timber stringers. 42. The distribution of stresses in structural steel compression pieces. 43. The action of metals under torsional and under combined flexure and torsion. 44. Resilience of metals beyond the elastic limit. 45. Strength and cost of acetylene-oxygen welds in steel and other metals. 46. Flow of water through sand and well screens. 47. The discharge of water from orifices and short tubes. 48. An investigation of water hammer in pipes.