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Caption: Course Catalog - 1891-1892
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60 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. separators, etc.; sorting machinery; comparative economy and efficiency of different methods of treatment; typical dressing works. Daring the entire course the students work in the laboratory, making mill and experimental tests upon the large scale. The laboratory is equipped for this purpose with a Dodge "crusher, a pair of Cornish rolls, elevators with deflecting spouts, automatic sampler, sizing screens, jigs, hydraulic separator, and rotating table. There is also a chlorine generator with tanks and vats. The machines are all of regular working size, driven with gearing by a steam engine, and worked iu accordance with the practic3 of milling,and testing laboratories. A complete series of assays is made of the products from each machine, and schemes of treatment and the speeding of the machine are worked out from the data. 4. Mine Engineering.—Two terms are devoted mainly to the technical and professional branches of mining. The exploration, development, and exploitation of mines are considered at length. The complications which arise are specially brought out from the study of typical mines. Instruction in mine management and -mine accounts is given. Calculations and designs from actual data are required from the students. The operation of machines and apparatus, ventilation, etc., are explained in accordance with the principles underlying them, as well as from the standpoint of practice. Fall term, 10 hour* a week; winter and spring terms, 5 hours a week. Professor BALDWIN. Required: Chemistry, 1, 6; Physics, 1; Mine Engineering, 1, 2, 3. ARCHITECTURE. Shop Practice B.—To give a practical knowledge of various kinds of work, three terms are devoted to a course of instruction, which all architectural students are required to pursue, unless they have previously had equivalent practice and obtained credit therefor. First Term.—Carpentry and Joinery. Planing flat, square, and octagonal prisms and cylinders; framing with single, double, and oblique tenons; splices, straight and scarfed ; mitre, lap, and gained joints; through and lap dovetails; mouldings, mitres, mitre-box, and panels.
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