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Caption: Course Catalog - 1894-1895
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56 COLLEGE O F ENGINEERING. THEORETICAL AND A P P L I E D MECHANICS. The courses in theoretical and applied mechanics are designed to meet the needs of students of the College of Engineering. Training is given in the principles of the subject and in the application and methods used in engineering design and construction. The text-book work is supplemented by lectures and reading. Stress is placed on the solution of engineering problems involving discrimination in the use of data and in the statement of conditions. Experimental work and investigation in the laboratory of applied mechanics is a p a r t of the regular instruction. Opportunity is also given for advanced laboratory investigation for thesis and special work. Equipment.—The Laboratory of Applied Mechanics has an Olsen testing machine of 200,000 pounds capacity, arranged to test beams twenty feet long; a Riehle testing machine of 100,000 pounds capacity; a smaller apparatus for testing beams, Riehle and Olsen cement testing machines, a Riehle wire testing machine, extensometers and deflectometers, a stone grinding machine, a r a t t l e r for abrasion tests of stone and brick, with other apparatus for making all necessary measurements and observations, molds, standard sieves for cement, etc. The laboratory is fitted up as a working laboratory where students may acquire such practice in experimental work as engineers are called upon to perform, as well as for the purpose of illustrating principles, and also for use in original investigation. The ordinary work includes testing metals, wooden beams, cement briquettes, stone, and brick. The hydraulic laboratory includes elevated tank and standpipe, steam pump for giving high pressure, tanks for measuring flow of water, pressure gauges, meters, water motor, turbine and other apparatus for experiments with orifices, weirs, pipes, nozzles, etc. The experiments are made in connection with the regular class instruction.
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