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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1882
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26 COLEEGE OF ENGINEEEING. SPECIAL F A C U L T Y . THE EEGENT, I Professor BAKEB, Professor EICKER, Dean, | | SCHOOLS. Professor Eoos, E . A. KIMBALL, JEROME LONDERICKER. Professor SHATTUCK, Professor PEABODY, Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Mining Engineering. Architecture, SCHOOL OP MECHANICAL ENGINEEEING. OBJECT OF T H E SCHOOL. This School seeks to prepare students to invent, design, construct and manage machinery for any branch of manufactures. APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENTS. The Machine shop is a substantial brick structure, erected in 18.71, for the purposes of this School, with that of Architecture and. Military Tactics. It has a sixteen-horse power engine, and the machine tools most needed, including a planer, two engine and three plain lathes, drilling machines, etc. There is a pattern shop, a blacksmith shop, and the requisite amount of vises and bench-room. A collection of models and machines serves to illustrate peculiar structures and methods of applying force. This School is provided with plates and a cabinet of models, illustrating mechanical movements and elementary combinations of mechanism. This collection is rapidly increasing by our own manufacture, and by purchase from abroad. It includes many of Eiggs' models, and others from the celebrated manufactory of J. Schroeder, of Darmstadt, Germany. About two hundred valuable models from the United States Patent Office are also included in the cabinet. INSTRUCTION. The elementary course in Mechanics begins with the second term of the Freshman year, following a term of elementary plane drawing, and continues to the end of the year. The student begins in the Pattern-shop, and is taught to produce simple forms of wood, and wood-turning. Prom this work he goes to the Blacksmith shop, wrhere he practices drawing, squaring, bending, welding, and otherwise fashioning iron. Eeturning to the Machine shop, he learns to cut off, center and drill wrought and cast iron. He gives much
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