Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1891-1892 [PAGE 73]

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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING.

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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING. The electrical laboratory o'ccupies a large room on the ground floor, fitted with masonry piers for the more sensitive instruments, and cases for apparatus. In this room the work relating to the measurement of current, resistance, electro-motor force, the standardizing of measurement apparatus, etc., is carried on. In addition to this are a photometry room, intended especially for photometric work in connection with electric lighting; a battery room containing a large storage battery and a collection of all the leading primary cells which are used for current and testing purposes; a dynamo room supplied with power from a fifteen-horse power gas engine and a sixty-horse power, high speed steam engine, both of which are used exclusively for this department and experimental work. In this room are to be found the leading types of dynamos and motors with conveniences for illustrating and testing them. A complete Thomson-Houston alternating plant has lately been added to the equipment of this room. Adjacent 1o the dynamo room is a workshop supplied with power from an electric motor. The shop is supplied with an engine lathe and a line of fine tools suited to the manufacture of special apparatus. Equipment.—The electrical laboratory has been supplied with apparatus from the leading makers at home and abroad. There are several forms of the Wheatstone bridge, resistance boxes, including an Anthony 100,000 ohm box, and a Nalder Bros, subdivided megohm box, an assortment of switches, keys, condensers, and the leading forms of deadbeat and ballistic galvanometers, including a Thompson high resistance, and an Edelman deadbeat galvanometer; also several D'Arsonval galvanometers, and numerous others. Several reading telescopes are used in connection with the galvanometers. The laboratory is also supplied with certified standards of resistance, standard cells, Thompson's current balances, ammeters, voltmeters, and watt-meters. Current is brought to the room from the dynamo and battery rooms.

COUBSE IN" ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, FIRST TEAR.

1. Advanced Algebra; Elements of Draughting; Shop Practice; French, German, or English; Military. 2. Trigonometry; Descriptive Geometry and Lettering; Shop Practice; French, German, or English; Military.