Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1878-1879 [PAGE 64]

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Illinois Industrial University.

The Basement is 12 feet high and contains the following rooms : 1st. Furnace room for assaying in the dry way and metallurgical operations. It contains a large smelting furnace, a forge, and an assay furnace. The necessary blast is produced by means of a Sturtevant blower. 2d. Mill room for storing and crushing ores. 3d. A large room for the manufacture of chemicals and pharmaceutical preparations. 4th. Coal cellar. 5 th. Boiler room. This room contains one large boiler for heating purposes; an engine with small boiler for running it; a large Sturtevant blower, which delivers 10,000 cubic feet of air per minute, for ventilating and heating; a smaller Sturtevant blower for supplying blast for blowpipes, forges, etc. 6th. Hot air chamber with about three miles of steam pipe. Through this chamber the hot air is forced all over the building by means of the large blower. The first story is 14 feet high and contains: 1st. A large lecture room capable of seating 200 persons. 2d. Ladies' clothes room. 3d. Gentlemens' clothes room. 4th. Qualitative laboratory, which will accommodate 152 students when fully completed. The number of desks now fitted up are one hundred and four. Each desk has an evaporating hood and a wash bowl with constant supply of water. Near the middle of the room there is a spectroscope table, and a blowpipe table for general use. Large gas hoods and sinks are constructed at the sides of the room for the accommodation of larger apparatus. 5th. Store room. This room has a central location and is completely stocked with apparatus and chemicals for qualitative analysis. The second story is 14 feet high and is designed for the use of advanced students only. It has the following appartments: 1 st. A small lecture room with mineralogical cabinet, and an extensive set of furnace models for illustrating lectures on metallurgy. 2d. Laboratory for students in agricultural chemistry. 3d. Main laboratory for quantitative analysis. These two laboratories will accommodate 152 students when fitted up to their full capacity. Forty-eight desks are now finished, and fur-