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Caption: Booklet - Engineering Experiment Station and Industry (1909)
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10 Breckenridge—Engineering Experiment Station TABLE II. Breckenridge—Engineering Experiment Station -pnw-T T — •p-r «- 11 Summary of the Manufactures of Illinois. 1900 14,374 $732,829,771 40,964 $40,549,245 332,871 $159,104,179 275,006 $143,714,217 47,922 $13,580,271 Number of establishments.... Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Salaried officials, clerks, etc., number 54,521 Salaries $60,559,678 Wage-earners, average number 379,436 Total wages $208,405,468 Men 16 years and over 314,091 Wages . . . . . $187,568,896 Women 16 years and over.. ^0,399 Wages $19,893,360 Children under 16 y e a r s . . . . 4,946 Wages $943,212 Miscellaneous e x p e n s e s . . . . . . . $172,185,567 Cost of materials u s e d . . . . . . . $840,057,316 Value of products, including custom work and repairing.$1,410,342,129 *Decrease. 1905 14,921 $975^44,799 Per cent of increase. 3-8 33-2 45000000 H H H L 33-i 49-3 14.0 3.1.0 14.2 30-S 26.0 C O § 40000000 3 0 0 PR tfl ffj tri QU tn fcj zy^m 46.5 9,943 *5Q-3 $1,809,691 *47-9 $118,047,771 45-9 $681,450,122 23-3 SH 35000000 EH 0 5 g> 30000000! : i, 120,868,308 25.8 §3 The path of the center of population is still advancing westward; a little north of this path, is that of the center of manufacturing which apparently keeps the same few hundred miles behind it, Fig. 13. Recent changes in manufacturing locations for several vast industries will extend those paths still on toward the west. Will these centers reach Illinois? We believe they will and it looks now as though they would finally locate on the campus of the University of Illinois. The Engineering Experiment Station of the University of Illinois was established by action of the Board of Trustees, December 8, 1903, in connection with the College of Engineering. There were two influences which led to its establishment; first, a demand from the industrial interests of the State for scientific experimentation relating to manufacturing processes, fuel economies and transportation problems; secondly, the very great success attending the work of the Agricultural Experiment Station at the University which made it evident that a similarly successful career ought to be possible for an engineering experiment station. It is very evident from the work which has now been accomplished by our Station and the many helpful things it has done for the industries of the State, that no mistake was made in establishing such a station. Organisation—The control of the Engineering Experiment Station is vested in the heads (9) of the several departments of the College of Engineering. These constitute the Station Staff, and with ! 25000000 20000000 1- 19051 19061 1897 YEAH, F I G . 8 . —YEARLY OUTPUT OF COAL IN ILLINOIS the Director, determine the character of the investigations to be undertaken. The investigations are carried on by the members of the Staff directly, by fellows as graduate work, by members of the instructional force of the College, and by special investigators belonging to the Station corps. Plan and Scope—It is the purpose of the Station to carry on investigations along the various lines of engineering, and to make ! 1907' 1898 1899 1902 1901 1900 1904 1903
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