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Caption: Course Catalog - 1886-1887
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00 University of Illinois. 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 EXEECISES. 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 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, aud panels. Second Term.—Turning and cabinet making; cylinders, balusters, capitals and bases of columns, 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 designs executed in plaster of Paris; production of plane, rule, warped, and spherical surfaces; voussoii s of arches, vaults, and domes; decorative carving. APPARATUS. A collection of casts donated by the Spanish government, and another of casts of various architectural details from Lehr, of Berlin, belong to the school of Architecture and Designing; models of ceilings, roof trusses, stairs, joints, etc,; Schrceder's models of joints in stone cutting, etc.
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