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Caption: Course Catalog - 1884-1885
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32 Illinois Industrial University. Theory of Engineering Instruments.—Examination of workimanship and design ; testing inst-ument-maker's adjustments; 'engineer's adjustments; determination of areas with transit; inaccessible and air line distances ; profiles ; heights and distances with stadia ; measurement of angles with sextant, etc. PRACTICE. In the fall term of the second year, the class will solve -numerous problems in distances, areas, etc., using the chain, compass, and plane-table. During the winter term the student will have practice with all the engineering instruments, and solve problems with the transit, stadia, level, and sextant. In the spring term an accurate topographical survey of a locality is made by the class, in which the stadia and plane-table are xised as in the United States surveys. In the fall term of the third year the class will execute a project in railroad engineering, which will consist of preliminary surveys, location, staking out, drawings, computations of «arth work, etc. The preliminary survey will consist in an •examination of the locality, and in running tangen,t lines, with leveling and topographical sketching. The location will consist in running the line over the route decided upon, with all the necessary measurements and calculations for establishing the grade, setting slope stakes, etc. The drawings will include alignment, profile, plans, etc. A project in geodesy or higher engineering will be executed during the fall term of the senior year. During this term the students have exercises in practical astronomy. APPARATUS. For Field Practice.—The school is well provided with the instruments necessary for the different branches of engineering field practice, which includes, chains, tape, compass, plane tables, stadias, transits, levels, barometer for barometrical leveling, base rods and comparing apparatus, sextants, engineer's transits arranged for astronomical observation. An astronomical observatory is provided with an equatorial telescope, an astronomical transit, with attachment for zenith telescope work, a chronometer, and a set of meteorological instruments. A portable altitude and azimuth instrument of the latest and best form, from the celebrated makers, Troughton &
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