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Illinois Industrial University.

TECHNICAL STUDIES.

Drawing from. Casts—Outline sketches and finished drawings in pencil, crayon, and charcoal. Elements of Drawing—Lectures; designs for specified problems. Wood Construction—Frames, roofs, ceilings, domes, heavy frames for mills, etc., roof trusses, stairs, doors, windows, external and internal finish. Stone Construction—Materials, mortars and cements, walls, foundations, stone cutting, tools and mode of using. Brick Construction—Materials, bonds, walls, arches, vaults and domes, centerings, etc. Iron Construction—Uses and strength of cast and wrought iron and steel; usual forms and formulae for columns, lintels, girders, and beams. Tinner's Work, Slating, Plastering, and Plumbing. Sanitary Construction—Scientific principles and practical methods employed in plumbing, water supply, and drainage of buildings. Architectural Drawing—Finishing in line, ink, sepia, and color; working out from sketches full sets of drawings for building; practical perspective, and shades and shadows. Architectural Designing—Original sketches for specified projects; one full set of drawings for buildings for specified private or public purpose. History of Architecture—-Daily lectures and recitations on principal styles, their characteristics, construction, and decoration, making especially prominent those ideas applicable in American architecture; tracing of details; designs for special problems. Esthetics of Architecture—Esthetics applied to architecture and allied arts, so far as yet made practical; laying out of grounds, arrangement of plans, grouping of masses; decoration, internal and external; treatment of "floors, walls, ceilings; art objects, furniture, carpets, etc. About twenty-five original designs required for specified objects. Estimates—Methods of measurement, cost of labor and materials, estimates for specified works. Agreements and Specifications—Preparation of sets. Heating and Ventilation—Usual methods, by grates, stoves, furnaces, hot water or steam apparatus; fuels, their properties, heating value, and products. Problems and applications to specified buildings. Graphical Statics—Elements; equilibrium polygon and its applications; roofs, loads, and wind pressures; type forms of trusses; determination of strains and dimensions of parts; details of joints; construction and use of graphical tables.