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School of Mechanical

Engineering.

The student is required to make the patterns and castings, finish the parts, and put them together in accordance with the working drawings and the required standard of workmanship. This acquaints him with the manner in which the Mechanical Engineer carries his designs into execution and teach him to so shape, proportion and dispose the parts of a machine as to secure the greatest economy of construction, and durability in use. Experiments in the testing of Prime Movers and other machines, are undertaken by the classes. They take Indicator Diagrams from the engine of the Mechanical Laboratory and determine from them the power developed Jvith different degrees of expansion.

VACATION JOURNALS AND MEMOIRS.

Journals of Travel are required to be kept during the summer vacations. Entries should be made as often as once a week, and consist of notices of manufactories, especially of their peculiar mechanical methods and machines. Dimensions of large and important machinery, such as stationary engines of water works, blowing and hoisting engines, and machinery in use in mining or other operations, may form a part of the record. The Journals of the first vacations are to be read and discussed in connection with the class in Designing and Shop Practice; and those of the second, in connection with the class in Cinematics and Principles of Mechanism. They should be illustrated by sketches reproduced upon the blackboard. Reports or memoirs upon visits and observations of the third vacation will be required instead of Journals, to be read in the class in Machine Drawing during the middle term of the fourth year. These reports should be made upon rare and interesting mechanical operations or machinery such as making gas pipe, spinning zinc, copper and brass ware, manufacturing saws, etc. They will be placed in the Library of the School, and should be illustrated by ample sketches and drawings.

APPARATUS.

This school is provided with plates and a cabinet of models illustating mechanical movements and elementary combinations of mechanism. This collection is rapidly increasing by our own manufacture, and by purchase from abroad.. A supply of Rigg's models has lately been added, and others from the celebrated model manufactory of J. Schrader of Darmstadt, Germany. About two hundred valuable models have been received from the United States Patent Office. This plan shows the arrangement of the Mechanical Laboratory. The bottom and left-hand side of the plan correspond to the two faces of the Mechanical Building, shown in perspective on page

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MECHANICAL LABORATORY.

In the Boiler and Furnace Room, T, is a Root's Sectional .Safety Boiler of 33 horse-power, which supplies steam for the engine, and for warming the building. The Emery Grinder, U, is