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Caption: Course Catalog - 1892-1893
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68 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. 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, winter, and spring terms, full study. Professor BALDWIN. Required: Chemistry, 1, 6; Physics, 1; Mine Engineering, 1, 2, 3. ARCHITECTURE. 1. 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; miter, lap, and gained joints; through and lap dovetails; moldings, miters, miter-box, and panels. Second Term.—Turning and Cabinet Making. Glue joints; moldings; inlaying; ornamental veneering; turning cylinders, balusters, ornamental forms, capitals, rosettes, vases, etc. Third Term.—Construction of portions of buildings or of complete architectural structures at a reduced scale; roof trusses, stairs, frames of wooden buildings, etc., made from drawings. Fall, winter, and spring terms, full study. Mr. PARKER. 2. General Architectural Construction.—(a) Wood Construction. Formulae and data for computing the dimensions and strengths of columns, rods, beams, girders, etc., of wood or metal are first given and then applied in the solution of numerous examples. The kinds of wood and their uses in construction and decoration, their seasoning, shrinkage, defects, and modes of protection from decay, are next studied. The construction and design of wooden floors, walls, ceilings, and roofs are then treated, and afterwards, joinery, comprising doors, windows, bays, inside finish, cornices, wainscoting, etc. The
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