Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1873 [PAGE 41]

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37 This plan* of the Mechanical Laboratory shows the arrangement of the same. The bottom and left-hand side of the plan correspond to the two faces of the Mechanical Building, shown in perspective on page 20. In the Boiler and Furnace Boom, T is a Boot's Sectional Safety Boiler of 33 horse-power, which supplies steam for the engine and for warming the building. The Forge and Furnace, ITU, are in this room, and also a moulder's bench with sand and the appliances for making brass, iron and other castings. At Z are the Pumps, and Stilwell Heater and Lime Extractor, for supplying the boiler with Water. • In the Machine Shop, A is the Engine, of 16 nominal horse-power, but capable of working to 30. I t is regulated by a variable cut-off of new design and simple construction, by Professor Bobinson. It was made by the students of the University. A Bichard's Indicator of the most approved construction is fitted to the cylinder. The main line of shafting is cold-rolled iron, 72 feet long, and furnished with the best iron pulleys and hangers. At B is a Putnam Engine Lathe of 20 inches swing by 10 feet bed. At D is an Ames Lathe of 15 inches swing by 6 feet bed. At G is a Putnam Planer for iron, planing 5 feet long. At EE are two Hand Lathes swinging about 10 inches by four feet. These were made by students. At F F F is a stretch of about 100 feet of heavy hard-wood benches, fitted up with vises, drawers, tool cases, etc. The Steam-heating Coils of this room are under the benches. At G is the Grindstone, also a £To. 1 Sturtevant Pressure Blower for furnishing blast to the furnace and forge. In the Pattern Shop are four complete sets of tools, benches and vises, each sufficient for a pattern maker; also a small Buz-saw. In the Carpenter Shop are the following: A Whitney Planer, a Moulding Machine, a Tenoning Machine, a Jig Saw, a Cutting-off Saw, a Slitting Saw, a Morticing Machine, a Yankee Whitler, a Turning Lathe, and three Power Grindstones; also ten work-benches, and a corresponding number of sets of bench-tools. There is also at the back of the building a brick Drying House, 25 feet by 14 feet, for drying lumber, containing 1,000 feet of three-quarter inch heating pipe.

SCHOOL OF MINING ENGINEEBmG.

O B J E C T AND INSTRUCTION,

This School is intended to qualify the student for undertaking mining operations of all kinds. Its instruction consists of a thorough training

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