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Caption: Course Catalog - 1884-1885
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College of Engineering. 55 models at reduced scale of roof and bridge trusses, ceilings, domes, and stairs. TECHNICAL STUDIES. Elements of Drawing—Lectures; designs for specified problems; outline sketches and finished drawings from casts in pencil, crayon, and charcoal. Wood Construction—:Frames, roof, 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 and Plastering. 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 buildings; practical perspective; shades and shadows. Architectural Designing—Original sketches for specific 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 for specified objects.
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