Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklet - One Hundred Million (Impact of UI) (1931) [PAGE 8]

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The investigation of rein I mcrete i in \n rei« has been given ver) msiderable sup| t b iclei intci I jn this field. The value of the r ulta m I < pc I to be greatei to tin building industr) in lar - iti< ( I The broad appli ibility of fundamenl ! r( v w II illus trated 1 \ the tests made for the R Ian tion I > < f th trl m u i Interior to determine the pro] rti< th< ounl ered in the foundation al the site of tin pro] I Mad I • the Chagres River in the Panama i inal /one. Th( of r in\ ttions suggested to the engin - d ignii the < that the methods leveloped in this investigation would give importai in tion con cernin the properties of the somewhat un iti ck which mu be used as the foundation I r the pi 1 d;

Railway Engineering

This department of the University, through t s coi leted la summer, indicated that a possible saving of ! d.OOO annual! n the operation of 40,000 of the larger type of I moth n Amerit n md Canadian railroads might be realized through the u the ther mic syphon, an appliance for the lo< motive firebox. The investigations proved conclusively that a in in lot motive efficiency is possible. Extensive in\ sti \ r arri 1 on in the University's locomotive laboratory on an i ht h r freight engine under conditions exactly the same s th m the road. There has long been a difference opini n as I tlv iciency of this appliance and the University's t \ 1 ttle th< 1

Ute. T h e syphon was invented about thirt< n y\ 1 it w is

t u ed on a locomotive in 1918. The department has carried on many investij ttioi | pi M < arising on si im and electric railwa) The »1 1< ts show the character and the results of the moi ti itions. (1) A w P ign for Railway Car Wheels, \1 ut thirt> lion i hilled < a I iron wheels are used on American raili ids m I **| ; : t illion new \\ h( Is arc requin d each year, l' on< IIH w heels is aboul ele\ en dollars. The^ i n b) \9 foundry throughout the United States and Canada of itecl v. iiliin the State of Illinois, { I'd - i i I'd / md \ l\l the depart nun ( carried on m In*

inj; in Ihc w h« i I u s e d under I'tehdu r i r « A

ol the load and iii the heal de\ el.>pcd w hen I \l I tin m I ITCVIOUH I" this m> ;ition thci h l i