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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

standardizing of measuring apparatus, etc., is carried on. This laboratory has been supplied with apparatus from the leading makers at home and abroad. There are several forms of bridges, resistance boxes, testing sets, non-inductive and continuously variable rheostats, and certified standards of resistance; the leading forms of galvanometers and reading devices; single and subdivided condensers, standard cells and electrostatic voltmeters; hot wire instruments; electrodynamometers; current balances; watt-meters; ammeters and voltmeters for direct and alternating currents. Current is brought to this laboratory from the battery room and from the dynamo laboratory. The dynamo laboratory is supplied with power from a sixty-horsepower steam engine, which is used exclusively for the experimental work of this department. In this laboratory are to be found the leading types of direct and alternating current dynamos and motors, with conveniences for making complete tests. The equipment includes a complete Thomson-Houston 300-light alternating current lighting plant, a complete Thomson-Houston 3-light arc lighting plant, a complete Brush 10-light arc lighting plant, a complete Edison 100-light incandescent plant, a. small 500 volt direct current power plant, and a small single phase alternating current power plant. The photometry room is fitted out with a complete electric light photometer, numerous types of direct and alternating current incandescent and arc lamps, and conveniences necessary for making complete tests. The battery room contains a large collection of primary cells, and several large batteries of the more important kinds of accumulators with arrangements for efficiency tests. The work shop is supplied with an engine, a speed lathe, grinder, etc., and a line of fine tools suited to the manufacture of special apparatus. An electric motor furnishes power for this room. Large additions to the equipment of this department are now making.

COURSE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, FIRST YEAR.

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Advanced Algebra; Elements of Draughting; French, German, or English; Shop Practice A; Military. Trigonometry; Descriptive Geometry and Lettering; French, German, or English; Shop Practice A; Military. Analytical Geometry; Advanced Descriptive Geometry; Free Hand Drawing; Shop Practice A; Military.