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Caption: Course Catalog - 1887-1888
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PROJECTS AND PRACTICE. 51 student is required to make the patterns and castings, finish the parts, and put them together in accordance with the working drawings and the required standard of workmanship. This acquaints him with the manner in which the mechanical engineer carries his design into execution, and teaches him so to shape, proportion and dispose the parts of a machine as to secure the greatest economy of construction and durability in use. The practice of the third year will include the careful construction of mechanical movements strictly in accordance with the theoretical determination of the form of the parts. The steam engine, large drill press, one engine lathe, the hand lathes, and the milling machine, now in use, were designed here, and built in the shop by students in the department. Experiments and Practical Problems.—Experiments in the testing of prime movers and other machines, are undertaken by the students. They take indicator diagrams from the engine of the Mechanical Laboratories, and in factories in the adjoining towns, and determine from them the power developed with different degrees of expansion, and the possible defects of valve movement in distribution of steam. APPARATUS. This school is provided with plates and a cabinet of models illustrating mechanical movements and elementary combinations of mechanism. This collection is rapidly increasing by our own manufacture, and by purchase from abroad. It includes many of Riggs' models, and others from the celebrated manufactory of J. Schroeder, of Darmstadt, Germany. About two hundred valuable models from the United States Patent Office are also included in the cabinet. The State has provided a large Mechanical Laboratory and Workshop, furnished with complete sets of tools, benches, vices, and forges, with flasks for moulding in sand, and cupola for melting iron. STUDIES. The studies are given by the year and term in the tabular view of the course. The order there indicated should be closely followed, that the student may avoid interference of his hours of recitation.
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