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Caption: Course Catalog - 1884-1885
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56 Illinois Industrial University. 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. SPECIAL EXERCISES. Specimen plates will be required of each student at the close of each term in drawing, to form a part of his record. All such plates must be on paper of regulation size, except when otherwise directed. SHOP PRACTICE. To give a practical knowledge of various kinds of work, three terms are occupied in a course of instruction, which all architectural students are required to pursue unless they have already had equivalent practice. First Term.—Carpentry and Joinery. Planing flat, square, and octagonal prisms and cylinders; framing with single, double, and oblique tenons; splices, straight and scarfed; miter, lap, and gained joints; through and lap dovetails; mouldings, miters, and panels. Second Terms.—Turning and cabinet making; cylinders,, balusters, capitals and bases of columes, vases, rosettes, etc.; fret sawing, plain and ornamental veneering; inlaying, carving, and polishing. Third Term.—Metal work, pattern making, moulding and casting, filing and finishing, drilling, screws, hand and machine turning. Stone work executed in plaster of Paris; production of plane, ruled, warped, and spherical surfaces; voussoirs of arches, vaults, and domes; decorative carving.
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