Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1893-1894 [PAGE 26]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

The testing laboratory, located in Machinery Hall, gives opportunity to students of the College of Engineering to make various practical experiments and tests, and to prosecute original investigations in the lines of their specialties. The mechanical laboratory occupies a large part of both floors of Machinery Hall, and each of its departments is equipped for practical work by students. There is a large machine shop with hand and machine tools for all the required operations; a pattern shop, a blackLiirith shop, a foundry, a boiler room, etc. The architectural workshops, in the same building with the mechanical laboratory, are fully equipped for bench and lathe work, and are supplied with all essential machine tools. Students become familiar with the tools and the work of the carpenter and cabinet maker, as well as with the draughting operations of the architect's office. The farms, fruit and forestry plantations, and gardens offer abundant illustrations of the work associated with the courses of instruction in agriculture and horticulture. The varied and carefully conducted opera" tions of the Agricultural Experiment Station afford excellent aids to students in these departments. For its specific purposes there are used about one hundred and seventy acres.